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Transforming Education |
Humanity's Essential Vocation |
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Teaching is a vocation essential to creating a more peaceful and just community. Teachers prepare youth to shape the future; by teaching with passion, energy, and commitment, teachers revitalize society as a whole.
As teachers, we aspire to create environments in which our students transform their understanding of self and world. Yet, we often struggle to find the spark that originally motivated us to teach.
At this special gathering with some of the nation's most renowned education experts, we reconnect with our original inspiration to teach. We explore new motivations for teaching and pinpoint inner and outer obstacles to applying our inspiration in the classroom. We consider the spiritual dimensions of our craft and identify how moments of meaning take place in the classroom, and the teaching strategies that invite those moments. We also articulate an ethic of connection in education, exploring the ways in which a holistic approach to teaching and learning creates the peaceful and just community we seek.
Faculty:
Jonathan Kozol is an educator, social justice advocate, and award-winning author. His books include Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation, Amazing Grace, Rachel and Her Children, Savage Inequalities, Ordinary Resurrections, and Letters to a Young Teacher.
Diana Chapman Walsh, PhD, is president emerita of Wellesley College and author of books and articles on education, health, and leadership. Before assuming the Wellesley presidency, Walsh was the Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior.
Peter Laurence, EdD, is executive director of Education as Transformation at Wellesley College. He is coeditor of Education as Transformation, Beyond Tolerance, and the book series Studies in Education and Spirituality.
Victor Kazanjian is dean of Religious and Spiritual Life, codirector of the Peace and Justice Studies Program, and president of Education as Transformation at Wellesley College. He is coeditor of Education as Transformation, Beyond Tolerance, and the book series Studies in Education and Spirituality.
Ji Hyang Sunim received Zen ordination in 1993 and served as abbot of the Cambridge Zen Center for five years. She is a former chaplain of Harvard and Boston universities.
Pamela Seigle, MS, is the executive director of Courage & Renewal Northeast and a Courage & Renewal facilitator.
Lisa Sankowski, EdM, is associate director of Courage & Renewal Northeast and a Courage & Renewal facilitator.
Sponsors:
Education as Transformation (EasT) is an international organization that provides consultation, educational materials, and training on issues of religious diversity and spirituality to educational institutions.
wellesley.edu/RelLife/transformation/
Courage & Renewal Northeast, an affiliate of the Center for Courage & Renewal, facilitates Courage to Teach® and other programs that support personal wholeness and vocational vitality for teachers. CourageNE.org |
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| Sponsored by Education as Transformation and Courage & Renewal Northeast |
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