Amazon.com
Continuing the literary work he began with The Art of Happiness, in this book, Tibet's revered spiritual teacher the Dalai Lama discusses the importance of giving and receiving love as the quintessential step to achieving a life of true happiness and fulfillment. In his characteristic direct and simple-to-understand fashion, the Dalai Lama offers guidelines and illustrative examples from his own life that instruct readers on how to move away from self-centered egotistic concerns and habitual tendencies to rigidly judge and categorize others, in order to become more compassionate and accepting of everyone we encounter throughout the day. To assist this process, he also shares exercises and techniques that have been part of Tibetan Buddhist teachings for many centuries.
By committing ourselves to becoming more compassionate and nonjudgmental about others, the Dalai Lama maintains, we are primarily benefiting ourselves, for the end result is one of open-hearted relationships capable of transforming all aspects of our lives and leading us ever closer to a life guided by the principles of wisdom and unshakeable joy. As with all of his writings, How To Expand Love is written in a simple yet elegant style, while imparting profound and powerful teachings that, if committed to, can lead to a realization of our true state of oneness with all of life. This is a very valuable book for today's fractious times. Larry Trivieri Jr. This text refers to the hardcover edition.
Book Description
Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and for others.
Through your kindness toward others, your mind and heart will open to peace.
Expanding peace to the larger community around you will bring unity, harmony, and cooperation.
Expanding peace further still to nations and then to the world will bring mutual trust, mutual respect, sincere communication, and finally successful joint efforts to solve the world's problems.
All this is possible once you learn
HOW TO EXPAND LOVE
With this illuminating and instructive handbook, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers sensible, everyday guidelines for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama describes a seven-step, self-directed program to help us open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives -- and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment.
Download Description
"In our quest for true happiness and fulfillment during the course of our lives, nothing is more essential than giving and receiving love. But how well do we understand love's extraordinarily transformative powers? Can we really cultivate and appreciate its priceless gifts? In How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers a simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama guides us through seven key stages. First, we learn ways to move beyond our self-defeating tendency to put others into rigid categories. We discover how to create and maintain a positive attitude toward those around us, in ever-widening circles. By reflecting on the kindnesses that close friends have shown us, particularly in childhood, we learn to reciprocate and help other people achieve their own long-term goals. And in seeking the well-being of others, we foster compassion, the all-encompassing face of love. In this accessible and insightful book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama helps us to open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment. "
Customer Reviews:
Expand the Circle of Love.......2007-08-18
A very well written book. The author gives new meaning to Love and compassion. There are meditations to help the reader in the process of developing loving relationships.
Only Love Heals .... .......2006-07-12
Spiritual wisdom of the heart whose root is compassion. The Dalai Lama is so generous in sharing his thought process on why an expansion of love is valuable to everyone. Love heals in a way nothing else can. It is the force that turned around a Jewish zealot who arrested Christians from Saul to Disciple Paul on the road to Damascus, turned a tax collector into a Apostle, and conquered the once pagan Roman Empire into the Holy Sea. Buddhism has grown into popularity in the West as its approach to love concentrates on compassion to such a high extent that there can only be love left in its wake. A brilliant illumination on the nature of love. This book is for Buddhists and non-Buddhists. We are affected by the thoughts we expose ourselves to, in whatever media they appear, do your dharma and karma a universe of good .... and open your heart and head to the Dalai Lama's teachings on expanding love.
Words of Distilled Spiritual Wisdom .......2005-10-31
I am not a Buddhist but this book is definitely one of the finest books when one is searching for spiritual wisdom and life's guiding light. No, it is certainly not a religious book and meditations can be practiced outside of Buddhism.
How to Expand Love by Jeffrey Hopkins (from the teaching of Dalai Lama) truly spells out the map/road to see higher consciousness of human beings. The most amazing thing about this book is that it can be perfectly appropriate for someone who just started opening themselves to learn about love and compassion. It can also be a book for someone who has some foundation of spirituality to learn more. It helps ones who want to further expand their heart to give and to receive love and compassion. The meditations practices described in the book is so easy to follow but it takes commitment. It can be a book you speed read once to get the feel of what it is like. But certainly if one wants to use this book as a primary tool in expanding love and compassion, one need to periodically go back and read certain chapters, using certain chapters as the central meditation practice.
Every time I pick up this book to read a chapter, I can just feel my heart is heated and warm, ready to channel love and compassion to friends, family, strangers and people who I sometimes get annoyed and upset. I am sure after re-reading the texts of this book a couple times, his words would just be another spiritual gateway for others learn about compassion.
It is another book to experience, another book for one to taste and to understand. Don't get frustrated when you cannot become the master of love and compassion after one reading. But make a commitment to ourselves we will activate our higher consciousness and awareness of our doings. We will do the very best we can to master love and compassion for human beings and for the nature.
The Dalai Lama on Love.......2005-09-06
"When I speak about love and compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist, or as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another". With these words, the Dalai Lama opens his recent guide to expanding one's circle of loving relationships through the practice of love and compassion. This book is simply and eloquently written, and its teachings are wise. The Dalai Lama points out that human beings are essentially alike when superficial differences are pealed away. In addition, all religions are essentially alike to the extent they teach love, kindness, and peace and "a desire to help their fellow beings." (p.4) The Dalai Lama presents a way of understanding these insights and a means of bringing them into focus in one's life through the practice of lovingkindness. Some of the teachings in this book make use of specifically Buddhist beliefs such as the doctrine of rebirth. But the practices and principles of this book can be used with benefit regardless of whether the reader accepts or doesn't accept rebirth or other specifically Buddhist doctrines.
The Dalai Lama sets forth a process of reflective understanding and meditation in first understanding the nature of love and then learning to practice it. It is an inner-directed teaching in that it looks to the self and to self-understanding rather than to externals -- to things beyond one's control such as wealth or power or to success -- as the key to happiness. Thus, the first part of the Dalai Lama's teaching in this book is directed to an understanding of the basic purity of the human mind. Because the mind is pure, it is possible, for the Dalai Lama, to remove defilements such as hatred, lust, and ignorance. The radiant, empty character of the mind also links all human beings together in terms of establishing a commonality and an ability to love and be loved. It teaches that people ought not to be categorized in that beyond the defilements that plague all of us, we are essentially human with the need to be loved and to be free from suffering. This teaching of the pure, radiant mind ("Buddha nature") possessed by all is the most fundamental and difficult teaching in this book.
The Dalai Lama then presents a series of seven steps to increase one's ability to feel love and compassion for an ever-growing class of people and sentient beings. The process is presented in gradually expanding steps, and the reader can follow the path as it develops. Each step is accompanied by teachings and by suggested meditation practices. these seven steps are 1.creating a positive attitude towards others; 2. recognizing the kindnesses each of us has received; 3. reciprocating the kindness of others; 4. learning to love others (including learning the difference between disinterested love and love based upon attachment, such as physical or sensual desire or upon the receipt of benefits from those close to us); 5. practicing compassion, the desire to have others free from suffering; 6 becoming committed to altruism -- to training one's mind to and working for the welfare of others; and 7. realizing enlightenment in terms of being devoted to the welfare of others.
The teachings in this book are in part guides that everyone can use regardless of his or her religious beliefs, and in part a simple exposition of the bodhisattva path of Mahayana Buddhism. The Dalai Lama makes frequent reference to ancient Indian and Tibetan sources, including the Tibetan "Stages on the Path to Enlightement" (pp 7-8), and the teachings of the great Indian sage, Nagarjuna (pp. 190 -- 197). Each chapter of the book is headed by a short quotation from a Buddhist source that the Dalai Lama amplifies in the teachings that follow.
This book is short and a pleasure to read, but there is no suggestion that the teachings are easy. Work on the mind and on learning to love is a project of years and lives. The Dalai Lama has written an inspiring guide to learning to love.
Robin Friedman
How to Expand Love by the Dalai Lama is a Gift to Humanity .......2005-09-05
If you are interested in learning from a man, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is the embodiment of inner peace, so that you can feel inner peace in your own life, than "How To Expand Love" will clearly and beautifully bring you answers no matter what path you may be on.
There are so many people in pain, attacking others, when they do not know how to recognize the love and goodness they are within. This book will help you to see and expand all of the good that you are, and then you can make a positive inner shift, where inner peace dwells, so that you feel inner peace in your life. You do not have to have any religious or spiritual leanings to learn from this beautiful book. All you need is a mind and heart that really wants to feel the inner peace you may have been searching for. It's a beautiful book with messages that will only uplift you and your life as this is what you deserve.
Barbara Rose, author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE
Editor, inspire! magazine
Book Description
In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist/teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era.
From involvement with the CIA and the Cold War, through experiences in Africa, India and Tibet, to her encounter with the Dalai Lama and Buddhism which led to her life-long embrace of the religion and a deep commitment to the peace and environmental movements, Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she reflects on how her marriage and family life enriched her service to the world. Widening Circles reveals the unique synthesis of spirituality and activism that define Macy's contribution to the world.
Customer Reviews:
Widening Circles.......2006-07-25
Joanna writes using all of the senses to 'catch' the reader's interest. I am inspired to say the least by her journey, her response to it and her willingness to share so candidly.
Coming to Understand Who We Really Are.......2001-10-30
I live in the Pacific Northwest. We are experiencing a rather intense conflict over whalehunting by the Makah Indian Nation. Many non-Indian (and some Native) environmentalists and animal lovers oppose the whalehunt, mainly on the grounds that it sets a poor precedent to restart it after a 70-year hiatus, and that it makes a mockery of attempts to preserve the natural environment. Some, in my opinion, have been particularly disrespectful of tribal elders and customs, publicly stating that the whaling traditions of the Makah are long since dead, and that since Indians now live in modern housing and hold down jobs like the rest of us, whaling is no longer relevant to the native culture.
The Makah insist that whalehunting is part of their treaty rights, and for others to pick and choose which rights they are allowed to exercise is similar to allowing another nation to decide which articles in the Bill of Rights Americans should be allowed to enjoy. They see whalehunting as an important part of their cultural heritage, which they are seeking to preserve. They, too, however, have spoken as if blind to the efforts of environmentalists over the past four decades to preserve and protect whales and their habitats so that whalehunting could even be a question.
Both groups share something in common: anger and grief. Environmentalists grieve for a time when whales freely roamed the seas, when Pacific Coast forests covered the landscape, when the Puget Sound region was not simply a slash of highways and cheaply built (but high-priced) housing developments, when cities and towns were not choked with garbage. Certainly, global warming and the pollution of the seas - neither of which can be attributed to the Makah - have accounted for more whale deaths than the Makah could ever accomplish. But still, for them, the hunted whale - the single whale that the Makah are likely to catch and kill each year using ancient technology - is a symbol of a world gone awry, of a vanished world (which may or may not have ever existed) in which humankind and the natural environment were locked in harmonious and continuing embrace. And while they are in grief, they haven't learned how to mourn.
The Makah are angry, too, though many are slow to display it to outsiders. They are angry about having their lives and culture wrenched away by invaders, but perhaps more so by the lure of modernity upon their young people. They seek to recapture a rich and ancient culture, rooted in the earth and sea and sky, but which most of them, like the environmentalists, have never really known. They grieve for a past which they know, deep down, they will never be able to fully recover, a world for which a single, lonely hunted whale has become a symbol.
Dealing with anger and with grief - for oneself and for the world - is the common thread that runs through Joanna Macy's compelling memoir Widening Circles. Having first met Joanna in 1977 at the protests against the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant (I make a cameo appearance in the book as the kazoo-playing pamphleteer and Sanskrit scholar), and later as her first publisher, I have watched with awe as Joanna has sought ways to transform our anger and grief into power, the personal power that gives our lives meaning even as we are stretched in our personal, political, and ultimately spiritual struggles.
Joanna's life spans five continents, and she is no stranger to grief and anger on any one of them. It has been an unusual life -- from New York French-speaking schoolgirl raised by an abusive father and long-suffering mother to CIA intelligence officer; from wife of a Peace Corps director in India and Africa to student of Buddhism and systems theory; from motorcycle-driving scholar of community development in Sri Lanka to futurist - Joanna has an uncanny ability to step back from the everyday fray of our frazzled lives and focus on who she - and we - really are, or can be.
Indeed, one of the things Widening Circles is really about is identity. Joanna's many travels, coupled with untrammeled curiosity about her world, has allowed her the luxury of finding identity, in the present moment as her Buddhist teachers would instruct her, but also in the lives of others, in the past and in the future, and well beyond the limits of her own skin.
And this is the gift Joanna has given us. Environmental problems are, at their core, human problems, questions of who we really are, and how we organize ourselves as a community and as a society, and ultimately how we see ourselves. When our grief and anger control us, we become prisoners of our little selves, and despair, when unexpressed, constrains us to a narrow focus upon the immediate, the here and now. Joanna's life work is truly an invitation to all of us to widen our circle, or in the words of William Blake, "To see the world in a grain of sand/And heaven in a wild flower,/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour."
Whales, too. Read the book.
(Published in EarthSpirit Magazine)
A life worth living.......2000-10-26
I read this book because I had already found 'World as Lover, World as Self' to be inspiring. Joanna Macy's combination of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology seems to 'fit' for me, but here it is her sheer humanity that impresses most. In this memoir she is not afraid to lay open her weaknesses as well as her strenghths, her questions as well as her answers. While her story ends in Bodh Gaya, the Indian site of the Buddha's awakening, what struck me most was the distance Macy had travelled to get there - a whole lifetime of journeying, and seventy years of a dramatically changing world to negotiate. A common thread through many of these years is Macy's opposition to the nuclear military/industrial complex, from her two years employment with the CIA and its culture of 'tough-mindedness' (p.65), to her visit to the people of Novozybkov, poisoned by Chernobyl, her insistence on the need to recognise, express and work through grief is constant. Her ability to guide people through despair to empowerment is a highly significant contribution to the world. To read the story of her life is to see how it can be possible to live without cynicism and with hope intact in the nuclear age. Since I had not read 'Coming Back to Life', Macy's nuclear guardianship project was new to me, and I found it extremely brave and moving. Another thread that runs through Macy's life story is the development of an authentic spirituality. Macy says 'the widening circles of my life have not had as their center the Big Papa God of my preacher forebears. I walked out on that belief when I was twenty'. (p. 277) Despite leaving formal Christianity, she tells of how she 'failed as an atheist' and of her many adventures with Buddhism. These range from the intellectual adventure of studying 'dependent co-arising' to the practical adventures of being thrown out of Sri Lanka and, later, trying to smuggle herself into Tibet illegally. Macy seems too much of a free spirit to sign on the dotted line of any religion, and she is able here to critique as well as praise aspects of Buddhism as she has encountered it. A quote on the back cover of the book is worth repeating: 'A gem for all young people seeking to create a life of meaning, passion and purpose'. I would endorse this, and widen it to include the not-so-young. Its interesting that much of what Macy is known for today was achieved only after her fortieth birthday...
Engaging journey........2000-10-03
Joanna Macy is an activist, a Buddhist scholar, and the author of many worthwhile books, including one of my favorites, WORLD AS LOVER, WORLD AS SELF (1991). Her inspiring memoir shows that a life of engaged spirituality is not only possible, but an adventure.
The title of Macy's autobiography is taken from a Rilke poem: "I have lived my life in widening circles/ that reach out across the world." Joanna was born into a Protestant family on May 2, 1929. Her abusive father was "controlling" (p. 24) and "reclusive" (p. 25). Her mother was oppressed. Joanna's childhood was "lonely" (p. 16). She enjoyed Presbyterian "Quiet Time" (pp. 36-37). After attending a foreign language school, Lycee Francais de New York, she enrolled in Wellesly, and majored in Biblical History (p. 46), before "walking out." Then, at 21, Joanna received a Fulbright scholarship that allowed her to study in France, where she read French existentialists Camus and Sartre. It was on a half-price student trip to Marrakech, however, that Joanna's life took a turn: "I had walked New York and Paris in search of myself," she writes, "but here in Marrakech I was walking inside my own body" (p. 61).
Upon returning to the U.S., Joanna then worked for the CIA for two and a half years (p. 65) prior to marrying her husband, Fran, in 1953. They had three children, Chris, Jack, and Peggy, before travelling to India in 1964, Tibet in 1965, and Africa in 1966 with the newly-created Peace Corps. At 36, after driving to Dharamsala to meet the Dalai Lama (singing "Hello Dalai" along the way), Macy experienced Buddhism: "I had turned inside out," she recalls, "like a kernel of popcorn over the fire. My interior was now on the outside, inextricably mixed with the rest of the world, and what I had tried to exclude was now at its core" (p. 122). Macy realized then that she was only present about 5 percent of the time, living her life "in absentia" (p. 105). "For this wasting of my life I had only myself to blame" (p. 115).
"At forty," Macy writes, "my mind was an eager horse" (p. 128), and she enrolled in the graduate religous studies program at Syracuse University, where she studied Buddhism and general systems theory. In her fifties, Macy participated in liberation Buddhism in Sri Lanka, and the entered Tibet illegally at age 58. In more recent years, she has become well known for her anti-nuke activism, and for leading workshops on despair and empowerment, deep ecology, and nuclear guardianship practices.
Macy's fascinating memoir offers inspiration to anyone, regardless of age, interested in travelling a more meaningful path, or widening the circles of their own life.
G. Merritt
Book Description
A passionate call for teachers and citizens to change the way we think about disabilities in our schools
Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms.
In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed "ready to compete" in "mainstream" classes,
Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills, it begins with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classrooms--pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate.
Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and "dumping" students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways.
Through powerful storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for not separating kids on the basis of difference.
Customer Reviews:
EXCELLENT !! A MUST READ .......2007-09-22
I am a stay-at-home mom and a parent of a child with a disability. I have been trying to educate our community and school district about the importance and benefits of including students with special needs in the regular education classroom. Using grant money, I have ordered 100 copies of this book and given them to parents, teachers, principals and all of the school board members. If you are interested in Inclusion, this is a MUST read.
Benefits for All from Inclusive Classrooms.......2007-09-18
Widening the Circle is a book that speaks to all of us and asks us to think about what kind of education is necessary to preserve a democratic society. Offering an inclusive definition of inclusion- encompassing race, gender, class, sexual orientation, as well as ability- Sapon-Shevin describes the multiple benefits of including all children in the mainstream of education. These include learning to live together in community, embracing difference and learning from the many different ways of being smart. Her conceptual principles and personal accounts together show how,without sacrificing anyone's educational success,truly inclusive classrooms can both enable all children to achieve academically and to develop the experiences and values for maintaining a democracy. This book is very accessible and useful for teachers, administrators, parents and general readers alike.
Excellent and useful.......2007-08-29
This is definitely a book with a message: ALL MEANS ALL. Each of us matters. If you have had the experience of being excluded or isolated because of who you are, or know someone who has, this is a good read. It is free of edu-speak, passionate, and has lots of good stories making points in response to common objections to school inclusion. It presents the big picture that disability is an interesting way to be alive along with other aspects of us that society may limit with restrictive labels (race, class, gender identity, ethnicity, etc.) Teachers and parents will find thought provoking and practical ideas in this book.
impassioned, funny and full of stories.......2007-08-27
I read this book because I'd met the author at a Children's Music Network event. The book sounds like Mara: impassioned, funny, and full of stories. What she is impassioned about here is including students of all abilities in a regular classroom, and teaching so that everybody learns what they can. It's not only good for the physically- or learning-challenged students, it's good for everybody. We all have different learning styles, so we can profit from a variety of teaching methods, and we all live in a world where we deal with people with different abilities. I see a lot of classrooms in my vocation as a storyteller and songwriter, but I didn't know a whole lot about education of children with disabilities, so I passed the book on to a friend who raised three kids with polio. She essentially agreed with Mara's thesis, that children given the help they need to survive in a regular classroom do better in life than children who are separated out.
Provocative, essential, and important.......2007-08-27
Sapon-Shevin's book raises many questions about the quality and efficacy of today's education and how we integrate all students in our classrooms. Her argument rests on the premise that all students are best served when they all have opportunities to work together in the classroom. As she eloquently explains, not only are classroom communities more vital and alive but more (and different types) of learning occurs. Academic content is integrated with social justice, caring, and holistic learning opportunities. This book offers not only an eloquent argument for such classrooms but also offers insights into how to create and achieve such classrooms.
If you're a teacher (or a pre-service teacher) or a parent, I recommend that you read this book in conjunction with her previous book, Because We Can Change the World. That's a powerful combination-- It will give you a real understanding of the power of classrooms, the power of teaching, and the opportunities we can create to make meaningful changes in the lives of all of our students.
I'm a teacher-educator and I am using this book in my Methods class this semester-- I am asking my pre-service teachers to read this book and take some of these ideas into their own classrooms. I know that this book will change the ways they understand their practicum and will help them revision themselves as agents of change within their new profession.
Book Description
It is estimated that between 40-60% of American Indian students drop out of school each year. Klug and Whitfield take a critical look at the issues of American Indian education to suggest a way to change this trend. Recognizing the need for a pedagogy that better serves American Indian students, Widening the Circle constructs a culturally relevant model of teaching that blends native and non-native worldviews and methods. Among the building blocks of this new pedagogy are the use of oral histories to supplement traditional texts and a re-evaluation of the knowledge base these students need for academic success.
Book Description
“In
Widening the Family Circle, the editors have assembled an eclectic group of accomplished authors to shed much needed light on many of the diverse and important forms of family relationships that are rarely studied or even understood. The focus on detailed description, examples, and research findings will appeal to both students and research scholars alike.†—Chris Segrin, University of Arizona
“This book helps us to realize the uniqueness of family systems and how many different types of relationships contribute to making up the family. It has a definite place in the market and for use in the classroom.†—Nancy J. Eckstein, Bethel University
Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication bridges the significant gap in family communication literature by providing a thorough examination of lesser-studied family relationships, such as those involving grandparents, in-laws, cousins, stepfamilies, and adoptive parents. In this engaging text, editors Kory Floyd and Mark T. Morman bring together a diverse collection of empirical studies, theoretic essays, and critical reviews of literature on communication to constitute a stronger, more complete understanding of communication within the family.
Key Features:
-
Addresses lesser-studied family relationships: While most books on family communication focus primarily on marriage and biological, custodial parent-child relations, this text explores a much wider circle of family relationships. A thorough examination of stepfamilies, mothers/adult daughters, adult siblings, grandparents, adoptive, fathers/adult sons, parents- and siblings-in-law, and post-divorce relationships is provided.
-
Offers commentary by leading family communication scholars: This book brings together the best of the research being conducted on various types of family relationships and showcases the work of some of the most respected scholars within the field of family communication.
-
Includes abundant references: A comprehensive reference section provides rich sources of literature reviews not included in many other texts to help students and scholars with their own projects and research.
Intended Audience: Perfect supplementary textbook for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in Family Communication; also relevant for many courses in Human Communication, Family Psychology, Family Studies, and Social Psychology
Average customer rating:
|
Reinventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education
Cesar Augusto Rossatto ,
Ricky Lee Allen , and
Marc Pruyn
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Multicultural
| Contemporary Methods
| Education Theory
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Aims & Objectives
| Education Theory
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Philosophy & Social Aspects
| Education Theory
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Pedagogy
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0742538885 |
Book Description
Reinventing Critical Pedagogy is divided into three thematic areas: Race, Ethnicity, and Critical Pedagogy, which exposes the pervasiveness of white supremacy and ethnic conflict; Theoretical Concerns, in which authors rethink the basic premises of capitalism, alienation, experience, religion, and social justice through a critical theory lens, a critical pedagogy staple; finally, Applications, Extensions, and Empirical Studies looks at undertheorized and underrepresented areas in critical pedagogy--gender, math education, pseudo-science, global literacy, and stories of successful resistance.
Book Description
Weaving In the Arts: Widening the Learning Circle offers new ways for classroom teachers to broaden the definition of literacy to include music, dance, poetry, and the visual arts. The authors share what they have learned from incorporating the fine arts into the daily curriculum: how teachers can help students use the fine arts as a bridge to reading and writing, and as valid ways of interpreting the world around them.
Drawing on the work of Howard Gardner, Elliot Eisner, and others, this book offers an inspired look at a curriculum where the fine arts are viewed as a "methodology" for helping students interpret what they know and understand. The authors begin by describing their own program: how they set up a learning environment conducive to the fine arts, how they reclaimed poetry as a natural response to learning, how they focused upon drawing for understanding. Then they explain how, through immersion "workshops," students "get inside the skin" of creative artists and think about the unique ways these people approach learning. Readers will discover how students:
- use music, dance, and the visual arts to develop multiple perspectives on their learning of science, math, and the language arts
- experiment with movement to interpret thinking
- create student operas as a response to story
- live and work in workshop environments to view learning from the inside out.
The book also includes extensive annotated bibliographies of books, CDs, audiotapes, and videotapes that teachers can use in curriculum planning.
Although Blecher and Jaffee describe their work in a primary classroom, preservice and inservice teachers at all levels, particularly elementary and middle school, have much to gain from reading this book. It offers a different perspective on the learning process and encourages readers to look at the curriculum in new ways.
Average customer rating:
|
Pebble in a pool,: The widening circles of Dorothy Canfield Fisher's life
Elizabeth Yates
Manufacturer: Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
| 18th Century
| 19th Century
| 20th Century
| African American
| Asian American
| Classics
| Collections & Readers
| Drama
| General
| Hispanic
| History & Criticism
| Humor
| Jewish American
| Letters & Correspondence
| Native American
| Poetry
| Short Stories
| Women Writers
Contemporary
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: B0007DX4DK |
Book Description
The first person to focus attention on Lyme disease, Polly Murray tells the harrowing story of her early efforts to identify what was making her family so sick-- and their battle with the illness over a twenty-year period.
In Lyme, Connecticut, in 1965, Polly Murray, her husband, and their four children led an almost picture-perfect life. But Polly began to be plagued by mysterious ailments, and as the rest of her family started to experience similar symptoms, she knew something was terribly wrong. When doctor after doctor failed to explain what was happening to them, Polly was forced to confront disbelief, lack of caring, and, eventually, apathy on the part of the medical establishment, all the while suffering herself. Her personal investigation into the cause of her family's illness, which became as passionate as a detective's, eventually initiated a medical investigation that led to the 1982 discovery by Dr. Willy Burgdorfer of the dangerous bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Polly tells her tale from the viewpoint of a patient who was a pioneer in the medical recognition of Lyme disease. Lyme disease remains a poorly diagnosed, controversial illness. Lyme victims and their families can take hope from Polly's courageous and inspiring story.
Customer Reviews:
A good read.......2006-02-22
I read this a while back and it is a good read for many reasons.
First of all, as one would expect from a book about the "discovery" of a new disease, there is mystery and intrigue that makes it hard to put down.
Secondly, the book reads as a tragedy since it is about a mother, herself sick, dealing with trying to help her sick kids. Anyone that knows about Lyme Disease knows that in far too many cases this scenario is still played out due lack of awareness as well as a to the manufactured "controversy" over Lyme Disease. With dozens of studies proving that the Lyme bacteria can persist despite treatment, and tests that are acknowleged to be inaccurate, we are living in the dark ages when it comes to this disease. The sad fact is that many are in the same situation Ms Murray was in so many decades ago.
You will cry as you read Ms Murray's book.
Finally, the book is about believing yourself and making a difference. It is about trusting yourself and standing up to those who tell you are wrong. While Ms Murray is not a physician, her "clinical observations" on this disease should be require reading for anyone treating patients. Over the years many of her "hunches" have proven to be correct. I am fairly certain that with time more of these will be proven. In particular, her observaton that subsequent tick bites serve to stengthen the disease in some way (not yet understood). I believe this observation is key to understadning why Lyme became more common in the 1980's despite the fact we now know it has been around since the ealry 1900's possibly earlier.
To me, Polly Murray is a hero, becuase she did what she had to do to help herself and her family.
A fascinating book, one that I will read again.
This book examines a difficult and misunderstood disease.......1997-04-21
THE WIDENING CIRCLE: A Lyme Disease Pioneer Tells Her Story. By Polly Murray. St. Martin's Press, 321 pp., $23.95
By Ann Hirschberg
Infectious disease sleuths are supposed to be lab-coated AIDS researchers or Dustin Hoffman types in "hot zone" suits as seen in "Outbreak." A genteel, New England landscape painter and mother of four does not fit the picture. Yet this medical pioneer uncovered Lyme disease, the fastest growing infectious disease next to AIDS and the number one vector-borne disease in our country.
The "Widening Circle" in Polly Murray's title refers not only to the expanding tell-tale rash which is the sure sign of Lyme disease, but to the research that has had to reach further and further to find the answers to this insidious tick-borne scourge. The "Circle" also encompasses the incredible numbers of medical professionals to whom Lyme disease sufferers are sent by uninformed doctors who can't or won't try to treat them.
After an incredible range of symptoms and many hospital stays for pain and procedures for the whole Murray family, Polly was told the illness was "all in her head." Her doctor became furious when she approached the health department with her findings that not only her family, but a large cluster of people in her Lyme, Connecticut area were afflicted. He accused her of "stirring up trouble."
Murray's intelligence and persistence led her to more research and finally to Yale University in 1975 where her findings were considered researchable by the doctors there.
"They were spirited, like archaeologists who'd unearthed an intriguing artifact, some bit of pottery that promises even greater riches will surface with just a few more turns of the spade.
"I certainly shared their enthusiasm. On the other hand, I'd been "in the field" for a while, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy to figure everything out so fast. Whatever this illness was, it was complicated, in that it involved so many systems of the body, and my instincts told me it was going to elude definition for some time to come."
Twenty years later, the search should have come to a happy ending with the advance of medical technology and millions in grants for research. The definitive test for Lyme disease and the "magic bullet" treatment should have been discovered.
Sadly, there is still no conclusive, reliable test for Lyme disease. Grants are sparse and the medical archeological "spades" are turning slowly. It is known that early treatment with antibiotics can arrest the disease. Left untreated, patients face the horrific sequalae Murray and her family still endure.
Though the disease has been reported in all 50 states, most doctors are not well informed and many are still saying," You can't have that in Ohio" and "There has never been a case reported here." The Ohio Department of Health Vector-borne Disease Unit figures stand at close to 500 reported cases. Though many doctors are not reporting cases (too much paperwork), the Centers for Disease Control case numbers showed a 58% increase in the U.S. in 1994.
Polly Murray's measured journey through this painful odyssey continues. Her tenacity and reasoned clarity shine through her writing. Along the way, you get to know her wonderful family, two of whom became doctors: a heroic accomplishment, all things considered. Murray continues the search for answers and has become not just a symbol, but a dedicated educator. She addresses medical professionals and researchers, including an appearance at Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, where one son was a student in 1989.
"The Widening Circle" goes beyond a tale of medical sleuthing. Murray knows the patient's struggle with Lyme disease and the parent's anguish. This book has much well researched and first-hand information for physicians and patients. She examines the need for education, collaboration, and respect, and explains why these are required not only of researchers, but of physicians treating Lyme disease patients in order to deal with this puzzling affliction.
Books:
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- If You're Thinking of Living in ...All About 115 Great Neighborhoods in and Around New York
- In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
- Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On: Trusting God in the Tough Times
- Long Time Gone
- Mao: The Unknown Story
- Mark Twain: A Life
- More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation
- My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic
- The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
- Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
- International Project Analysis and Financing
- New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis
- Split Images
- Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political and Scientific Controversies
- Key Management Models
- Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis
- Wildflowers of Southwestern Utah
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
How to Practice : The Way to a Meaningful Life
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
