Confidential Iran memo exposes policy to deny Baha’i students university education

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

NEW YORK
27 August 2007 (BWNS)
The Baha’i International Community has received a copy of a confidential 2006 letter from Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology instructing Iranian universities to expel any student who is discovered to be a Baha’i.
The letter refutes recent statements by Iranian officials, who say Baha’i students in Iran face no discrimination [...]

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Free Schools India - work worthy of your support?

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

You might feel that this work is worthy of some support, we do;
Free Schools India is a small organisation made up of people dedicated to sustainable development, and to the ideal that all children should receive a free, quality, education. We are a collection of people from several fields who have come together to start [...]

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Diagram of the SunWALK model of Holistic Education

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

The SunWALK logo/diagram conveys the basic ideas of the SunWALK model of Holistic Education;
 
The diagram functions as a logo, badge, a mandala, diagram, curriculum outline, model of what it is to be human (- and even as a building plan design).
You can read more about the basic ideas HERE
or a complete doctoral thesis HERE

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Story and storying: the teacher’s self as text in reform of education

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

Parker Palmer in, The Courage to Teach, (1998 p.3), says that his book:
explores the teacher’s inner life, but it also raises a question that goes beyond the solitude of the teacher’s soul: How can the teacher’s selfhood become a legitimate topic in education and in our public dialogues on educational reform?
It turns out that this [...]

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Starting your own school

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

Today someone wrote me from Mexico and asked about starting a holistic school or centre. Below is what I wrote back but I will add more as I think of it;
If I were much younger and was able to start a school, my hard-won general principles would include;
.
1 Find the finance to buy a [...]

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Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney; resonance, memory, self-understanding and depths of the soul

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

Sculpture the ‘Well of Life’, Zagreb - source
I chose the following poem by Seamus Heaney (1996 p.14) as ‘the poem’ for my doctoral thesis because it shows beautifully how we resonate now, in relation to what we sensed and experienced as children. It also shows how, through metaphor, the objective connects with the subjective [...]

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The Whole and the parts, awe and concepts, head and heart

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

Source
Central to Heschel’s belief and teachings was that we should stay in touch with that experience of the Whole that engenders awe and wonder (what he also calls ‘radical amazement’). He says that;
The secret of being human is care for meaning. Man is not his own meaning, and if the essence of being human is [...]

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Mystical implications of photography

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Sunwalk Ed

Photo by: Andre Kertesz - source
For some time now I have been interested in how both cinema and photography might be compared to mystical experience. I will post separately re cinema.
One point of comparison lies in how the two see the moment.
In the mystical the moment is seen as out of time - [...]

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