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Reimagining the Classroom
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Reimagining the Classroom

by Theodore Richards
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 6Spirit: Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation

Education isn't merely about skills and information. Fully realized, education can and should consider bigger questions about our place in the world; promote kindness and compassion; and offer practices to help calm the mind and look within. Just as cosmology is the big picture—the way that everything is a unique expression of and connected to the whole—spirituality is the interiority of things, the notion that there is a subjectivity and inner life of each being.

In this chapter, we approach this aspect of life, but some clarification is in order. Rather than thinking of spirit in opposition to matter, or spirituality as radically separate from nature, let's think of the spiritual as: ...

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