Editorial
Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal.
Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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Can One Learn the Art of Living from Nature?
‘Is man a part of nature, or apart from nature?’ It seems paradoxical to ask such a question.
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Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology, a current philosophical movement initiated by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, is shaping the environmental debate by asking fundamental questions about who we are and what human progress means rather than searching merely for technological fixes.
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Envy and the High Demands of Love
Envy is a curious emotion with a long and tragic history in human affairs.
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The Philosophy of Vocational Education
The U.S. has its own history and tradition of vocational education.
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Teachers or educators are human beings
Teachers or educators are human beings. Their function is to help the student to learn not only this or that subject, but to understand the whole activity of learning; not only to gather information about various subjects, but primarily to be complete human beings.
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Is Environmental Education an Oxymoron?
For those calling themselves environmental educators, it is sobering to note that the only people who have lived sustainably in the Amazon rain forests, the desert Southwest, or anywhere else on earth could not read or write (which is not to say that they were uneducated).
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What is the significance of history in the education of the young?
Question: What is the significance of history in the education of the young?
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Leaves from a Teacher’s Journal
Teachers are busy people. Their work demands intense engagement with students, other adults, their subject, ways of communicating it, and much else.
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Alienation from the Wild
After a decade of involvement in nature education with individuals and groups from widely differing socio-cultural milieus, we have noticed that a profound alienation from the natural and the wild has taken place, in all human societies, for various reasons and to varying degrees.
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Energy: A Multidisciplinary School Project
On the Theme and Process of the Project ‘Energy’—the term has many meanings and each of these impacts our lives in direct ways.
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Creativity and Insight in Daily Life
This article is an exploration of creativity as well as the more elusive notion of insight.
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The Frog Prince: Embracing the Negative in Our Selves
I start with Krishnamurti’s statement: …reality cannot come into being…without self-knowledge, self-knowledge which is discovered from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship, so that all illusion is stripped away, so that the ego does not build fantasies, escapes.
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Speaking of God
In every human being there is the quest for the unknown, and in every consciousness, whether young or old, whether traditional or modern, there is a notion of God.
Global Violence and Individual Responsibility
The spectacular events of terrorism that took place in the United States a few months ago have focussed the attention of the whole world on the issue of global violence.
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The Human Perspective in Teaching Geography
Images of GeographyGeography – the very name conjures up images of misty mountains, bubbling brooks, rapidly flowing rills, deep gorges, endless undulating plains, and majestic rivers, so slow-flowing that they almost seem indolent, yet with a hidden power that man has sought to harness for aeons.
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The Unbearable Ennui of being Sherlock Holmes: A Meditation in Three Movements
Sherlock Holmes, as is well known, was a person who was subject to violent fluctuations of mood.
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On Ethics in Education
The current climate in so-called mainstream education, both private and government controlled, indicates that it has reached a kind of impasse.
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Dancing with Shadows: Graduation Address, 1997
Welcome to the 1997 Oak Grove School Graduation Ceremonies.
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On Culture Classes
Culture classes have become an integral part of the curriculum at most K schools, yet their scope and purpose remain obscure.
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Ecological Perception
In the days before scientific thinking took hold in the West the earth was seen as a vast living being worthy of deep respect and reverence.
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