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The Responsibility of Thinking Well

tractsofrevolution wrote 2 days ago: Anderson: “The best way to keep an audience from seeing the weakness in any plot is to step up … more →

Tags: Conversations with Anthony De Mello, Walter Truett Ande, Constructivism, Constructs, Critical Thinking, Faith, Meaning, Narrative, patterns of meaning, Postmodernism

Learning from experience, narrative style #octel 3 comments

crumphelen wrote 1 week ago: This week #ocTEL MOOC takes a look at “Platforms and Technologies“. It’s a topic t … more →

Tags: Learning Technology, Octel, Blogging, experiential learning, Kolb, LinkedIn, narrative learning, Story telling, technology

Locative Meaning-making: An Arts-based Approach to Learning for Sustainable Development

arjenwals wrote 1 week ago: “Locative Meaning-making: An Arts-based Approach to Learning for Sustainable Development … more →

Tags: sustainability, Learning, Article, Environmental Education, esd, Place-based education, place-based, dialogic, dialogic practices

Life Without Hooks

tractsofrevolution wrote 1 week ago: De Mello: “Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings … more →

Tags: Conversations with Anthony De Mello, Walter Truett Ande, Anthony de Mello, artifacts, Attachment, Biology, Buddha, Christ, Constructivism, Detachment

“When surface is depth” – on method, collaboration and Scree2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 2 weeks ago:    “Whenever we enter the land, sooner or later we pick up the scent of our own histories, and when … more →

Tags: Materiality & memory, wandering, Tracework, Ghosts of place, Archives, repositories and data stores

At the Threshold

tractsofrevolution wrote 3 weeks ago: Anderson: “As we become aware of the social construction of reality – consciously, publi … more →

Tags: Conversations with Anthony De Mello, Walter Truett Ande, awakening, Beliefs, Constructivism, Disillusionment, enlightenment, experience?, Meaning, meaning in life

Careful what you kick at – a short rant about anti-health & safety culture1 comment

lukebennett13 wrote 4 weeks ago: Tuning into the 10 o’clock news last night to marvel at how a businessman could sell millions of pou … more →

Tags: Access/liability, Law & place, Law Things

New Uses for Old Bunkers # 31: WD’s Posting Sentries Project

lukebennett13 wrote 4 weeks ago: Last year I had an academic paper published that offered up some thoughts and reflections on why som … more →

Tags: Abandoned Buildings, Built Environments, Bunkers, Dark Tourism, Enthusiasm, Ghosts of place, Law & place, Materiality & memory, Territory

Dropping Illusions

tractsofrevolution wrote 4 weeks ago: De Mello: “You must drop it all. Not physical renunciation, you understand; that’s easy. … more →

Tags: Conversations with Anthony De Mello, Walter Truett Ande, Anthony de Mello, awakening, Christian Worldview, Constructivism, Illusions, Meaning, Morality, Mystery

I have been rea...

emmamillslondon wrote 1 month ago: I have been reading this chaps books. They are about economics rather than psychology but they make … more →

Tags: Psychology, Emma Mills, Self-Help, London, Nassim Taleb, Economics, the Unknwon, black swan, how to be successful

Parkwood Scree: the shimmering hillside tip2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 1 month ago: For over a decade I’ve seen it every morning from my sitting room. Pulling open the curtains i … more →

Tags: ANT, OOO and Thingology, Built Environments, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Contamination, pollution and adulteration, dirt. dust, Law & place, Materiality & memory, Mines & Quarries, scree

Learning by Doing (or What's Good for the Gosling is Good for the Goose)3 comments

vvinton wrote 1 month ago: I’m a big believer in the idea that what’s good for students is good for teachers as wel … more →

Tags: Reading, Reflecting, Teaching, balanced literacy, building capacity, Classrooms, Close Reading, common core standards, Craft

How to Have a Meaningful Life

victoria m. wrote 1 month ago: Gregoire de Kalbernatten It is truly a tragedy what happened today in Boston.  I feel like it stoppe … more →

Tags: Inspirational Quotes, death anxiety, Boston Bombing, Personal Responsibility, Meaningful Life

It's Okay to Cry, Really It Is4 comments

Erin, Bella Bleue wrote 1 month ago: Why do people cry? “Maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can’t contain it; yo … more →

Tags: Connecting to the wonder we are, Discovering Strength, Healing, bereavement, City of Angels Quote, Grief, Grief Support, healing, it's okay to cry

Parkwood Scree: the stuff of war, the comfort of rubber3 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 1 month ago: Ok, so this week’s blog essay was going to be another extract from Scree, my and Katja Hock … more →

Tags: Air Raids, ANT, OOO and Thingology, Ghosts of place, Materiality & memory, Melancholia & nostalgia, Metal theft, Mourning & place, pillage, scree

Meaning for the Insignificant4 comments

aawolsisters wrote 1 month ago: Photo by kennymatic By Elizabeth Chang Napkin dispenser. Muffin. Sea glass. Porch swing. Turkey, Mue … more →

Tags: Reflections, Growth, Journey, Memories, Remembrance

Toward a Composition Made Whole

Aimée Knight wrote 1 month ago: Jody Shipka. Toward a Composition Made Whole. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.  “Bu … more →

Tags: Reviews, Shipka, Multimodal Composition, ARGs

Parkwood Scree: making matter mountain2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 1 month ago:   This essay is an early draft of what is likely to be the closing piece in my and Katja Hock’s phot … more →

Tags: ANT, OOO and Thingology, Built Environments, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Climbing, parkour and other playscaping, Contamination, pollution and adulteration, Enthusiasm, Ghosts of place, Materiality & memory, Melancholia & nostalgia

Appreciating what children do with paint - Kolbe

backyardbooks wrote 1 month ago: In one of my favourite books on children’s art (the second edition of Rapunzel’s Superma … more →

Tags: art education, Nurturing Creativity, reading symbols, Ursula Kolbe, young children and art, learning to paint


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