Author: Lowell Gustafson
Science, Religion, and Deep Time
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Jul 11, 2022 | Adult Education, Big History, Book, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
New book just published Science, Religion and Deep Time (2022) Edited By Lowell Gustafson, Barry Rodrigue, David Blanks. Routledge.This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and […]
Videos of 2021 IBHA Conference
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Aug 6, 2021 | Adult Education, Art, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Video |
These are videos of the entire 2021 IBHA conference.
The Story of Life
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Apr 22, 2021 | Adult Education, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lecture/Webinar, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Please join us for a presentation on The Story of Life by Dr. Paul Narguizian College of Natural & Social Sciences Department of Biological Sciences California State University, Los Angeles Tuesday, May 4 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time 10 am Pacific Time GMT ( UTC ): 5:00 PM (17:00) https://zoom.us/j/98114378669?pwd=eEs1UlNneEpQbG5iUHFWWjJNZXNVZz09 Science is a search for […]
The Indian Subcontinent and Climate Change: A Big History Perspective
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Feb 14, 2021 | Adult Education, Big History, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lecture/Webinar, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 3:30 – 5:30 pm IST (Indian Standard Time) or 5 am EST in the US. Register at https://forms.gle/ewp9myWMtN8Ajk8r6
Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume XI Number 1
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Feb 14, 2021 | Adult Education, Big History, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Other, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Big History Around Us by David J. LePoire pdf version of Origins While reading books on Big History (Christian 2018, Christian et. al. 2014) gives many details concerning Big History, there are reminders all around us of items and events in Big History. We start with an ordinary house photo and then, like a detective, search […]
Mergence: Newsletter of the International Big History Association
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Feb 6, 2021 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Video |
A Big History Praxis by Heikki Patomaki, essay by Ken Baskin, What Imogene Drummond is reading, Frontiers by J.N. Nielsen, Jaynavi Pandya interviewing Orla O’Reilly Hazra, Hirofumi Katayama, Javier Collado Ruano, and Spencer Striker
Origins Volume X Issue 6
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Nov 25, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Current Issues, Government, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |
My Cosmic Story: The Dark Energy by Noha Tarek Please click on this link (a pdf version is here) for this profound personal reflection of a journey into big history by a graduate student from Egypt, who says “My B.Sc. and M.Sc. are in the discipline of political science. I have been working also in the field of […]
Big History and a Coming of Age Story
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Oct 18, 2020 | Adult Education, Big History, Education, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Video |
Incorporating the deep future into big history helps to produce a coming of age story to complement an origin one. Presented by Lowell Gustafson to the 2020 Globalistics International Conference and the Fourth International Symposium of Big History and Global Evolution at Lomonosov Moscow State University, October 20-24, 2020.
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Jun 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12, Video |
A conversation with Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, editors of Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, with Lowell Gustafson, President, International Big History Association (https://bighistory.org/)
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Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
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