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Past, Present & Future

by David A. Feingold, Ed.D

Aug 20 2015 - 4:13pm

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

by Medoza Ameen

Jan 22 2015 - 12:26pm

Diversity, David Feingold

Diversity-themed video consisting of quotes, music background and artist's images. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Paul Grobstein, Bryn Mawr College.

Brandy Snaps and Battlefields, Clare Mullaney

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What if, like the brandy snap, our own breakages prodded our supple shaping not just to the end of a spoon, but to those around us—those who too are afflicted with burdens birthed of deviation?

Learning from Extinctions... and Life, Paul Grobstein

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Why are we so upset by death and other breaks, by losses that produce disruptions of the established pattern of things, when so many other things around us treat them with equanimity, even indifference?

Truth and Power in Education, Bharath Vallabha

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If the teacher doesn’t stand for something, if the teacher doesn’t say there are some things which are good and some bad, then the students will not have the rupture which is essential for growth.

Breaking: A Life Story in 10 Fragments, Anne Dalke

But I was after the truth, which impels me...in the searches I conduct both in my classes and in student conferences. That is the cause of my questioning, unremitting, my refusal of complacency, my insistence that, hard and deep as we may dig, we will never, ever get to the bottom.

Breaking Down, Samantha Martinez

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My thick walls of protection disintegrated and what was left was a shell of me, in pain, weak, with a loss of words, and a near deadly fascination with dying.

Contents So Far . . .

Introduction, Alice Lesnick
Acknowledgements

Breaking: A Life Story in 10 Fragments, Anne Dalke

Been a Long Time Leaving, Rob Goldberg

Learning from Extinctions . . . and Life, Paul Grobstein

The Role of Smoking Cigarettes in the Education of a Young Jew, Jody Cohen

Walking Poem, Alice Lesnick and Emma Wipperman

Breaking Down, Samantha Matinez

Untitled, Jessye Cohen-Dan

Hungry Ghosts, Jody Cohen

Truth and Power in Education, Bharath Vallabha

Breaking in Six Degrees, Hallie Garrison

The Breaking Project

An Evolving Anthology

EXPLORE RESPOND CREATE THE COURSE

Latest Breaking

Diversity-themed video consisting of quotes, music background and artist's images. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Paul Grobstein, Bryn Mawr College.

[image source]

What if, like the brandy snap, our own breakages prodded our supple shaping not just to the end of a spoon, but to those around us—those who too are afflicted with burdens birthed of deviation?

[image source]

Why are we so upset by death and other breaks, by losses that produce disruptions of the established pattern of things, when so many other things around us treat them with equanimity, even indifference?

[image source]

If the teacher doesn’t stand for something, if the teacher doesn’t say there are some things which are good and some bad, then the students will not have the rupture which is essential for growth.

But I was after the truth, which impels me...in the searches I conduct both in my classes and in student conferences. That is the cause of my questioning, unremitting, my refusal of complacency, my insistence that, hard and deep as we may dig, we will never, ever get to the bottom.

[image source]

My thick walls of protection disintegrated and what was left was a shell of me, in pain, weak, with a loss of words, and a near deadly fascination with dying.

Contents So Far . . .

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