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Reading about Finland

Submitted by jccohen on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 4:04pm

Responding to Tough, round 2

Submitted by jccohen on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 11:05am

Reading Paul Tough

Submitted by jccohen on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 9:04pm

Reading McEntee et. al (second half) and Campano

Submitted by jccohen on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 11:26am

cross-visitation

Submitted by jccohen on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 6:11pm

Please post here a brief description of your field site with the times that you're there. Thanks!

Reading McEntee et. al (chaps. 1-7) and Barahal

Submitted by jccohen on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 6:08pm

Reading Freire (first half) and Dewey

Submitted by jccohen on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 9:52pm

A Message from Sister Linda-Susan Beard

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 8:21am

Silence

Dear members of the silence community,

I want to thank you for your gracious listening yesterday. You were practicing deep silence in such compassionate and welcoming listening. I am grateful. I also learned a lot from your questions and insights.

I wanted to pass on information about the "tree of contemplative practices" which was put out by a secular contemplative group with which I am deeply involved. I am a Contemplative Practice Fellow of The Contemplative Mind in Society Project. I would suggest visiting their website: http://www.contemplativemind.org/ I was speaking as a nun yesterday, but those of you who would be more comfortable with a conversation about silence in a context that does not connect with faith might find the Project fascinating. If you go to the website, be patient and the tree of contemplative practices will emerge with a list of a few dozen contemplative practices that have been part of Eastern and Western contemplative traditions for at least 2000 years. You can also google more information about each of the practices. You may find one that suits your lifestyle, relationship to questions of faith, vision of yourself as a secular woman, or temperament.

Attending to being outside--and inside! What difference does it make?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 6:21am

...and how are you dealing w/ the difference? We agreed to take turns being responsible for where we will meet (and if we move midway, etc.) --AND that each of us will post a short reflection here, on the day that we chose, about our decision: what it was like, watching the class and the world in which it is operating, inside or out…what seems foreground/background/essential/not? How distracted were you/what did you do about it?

Do you have any ideas about how to incorporate the "distractions" of being outside (or inside) into our curriculum? What are you coming to understand of the relation between "reading the word" and "reading the world" that the word represents, about foregrounding much of what is usually backgrounded in literary studies, asking what we might lose by seeing the world only as mediated by the word....?

Attending to being outside--and inside: what difference does it make?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 7:17pm

...and how are you dealing w/ the difference? What are the "rules of engagement" for our meetings in these alternative spaces? Please post a comment on the day when you selected our site, describing both what you noticed and how you coped w/ the distractions of being outside (or not)... Do you have any ideas about how to incorporate them into our curriculum?