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Teachers College Record, Sep 1, 2006
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2006
This article describes a course offered at Teachers College, Columbia University, which focuses o... more This article describes a course offered at Teachers College, Columbia University, which focuses on contemplative practices from various wisdom traditions in order to increase awareness of what they share and to encourage educators to view these practices as sources of peace and tolerance. The article also presents various ways in which the students participated in the course and ends with an essay on “right teaching,” written as a final project by Akbar Ali Herndon and Zuki Karpinska.
Teachers College Record, Sep 1, 2006
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2006
This article describes a course offered at Teachers College, Columbia University, which focuses o... more This article describes a course offered at Teachers College, Columbia University, which focuses on contemplative practices from various wisdom traditions in order to increase awareness of what they share and to encourage educators to view these practices as sources of peace and tolerance. The article also presents various ways in which the students participated in the course and ends with an essay on “right teaching,” written as a final project by Akbar Ali Herndon and Zuki Karpinska.