This paper explores how Big History affects political identity and ideas of security. It is for the 2016 IBHA conference. Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcomed!
My paper on this topic for the 2016 IBHA conference; comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome!
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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A celebration of the great beauty and deep wisdom of the unique, magical landscape of southeastern Utah. A place full of stone tablets holding both the vast breadth of our planet’s history, and the simplest of commandments.
This year, in lieu of a final cumulative assessment in Big History, nearly 100 teens participated in a Big History exhibition of their final projects, which were showcased on a walking tour of the eight thresholds of increasing complexity in the story of our universe, planet, and humanity. The teens invited family and other community […]
Article in an online magazine in Philadelpha, PA.
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The Ridge and Valley Charter School, Blairstown, NJ is a pre-eminent example of a school inspired by the work of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme and the movie/book Journey of the Universe. Founded in 1999 by a group of people associated with Genesis Farm in Blairstown, NJ and its pioneering Earth Literacy curriculum developed by […]
Orbis Books has started a new series: Catholicity in an Evolving Universe Series. This book by Ilia Delio demonstrates that catholicity is a conscious awareness of how everything–sun and stars, maple trees and muddy rivers, and all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens–forms one thing. It is a dynamic, spiritual quality that quite literally […]
This link connects you to the Curriculum Framework section of the Ridge and Valley Charter School’s website. Here you can read about the philosophy behind, and different elements in, our framework. You can also download the Curriculum Framework document to read in it’s entirety.
Now that I’m free to wander and find native plants and flowers wherever I go, I often remember the spirit of a place by the plants that I saw there. They tell me a complex story about the place they’re in. They bring back the scents, the bird song, the sighing of wind, the feel […]
Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
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.
The result is transformative.
