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Holistic Education Network of Tasmania, Inc.

June 26^th, 2001         Send this email to a friend

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"The time has come for soulful learning. We have had enough of machine-like approaches to education which deaden the human spirit."

Teacher Story...

Bringing Spirituality Into Our Schools

"My yoga teacher was telling me about her 14 year old daughter. How one minute she was extremely idealistic and positive about the world and her future, the next in the depths of despair....."

Soulful learning nurtures the inner life of the student and connects it to the outer life and the environment. It acknowledges and gives priority to the human spirit rather than the simply producing individuals who can "compete in the global economy." Restoring the soul to education is not a new vision. It is vision articulated by the Greeks and various indigenous people for centuries. It is found in Taoism and the in the teachings of Christ and the Buddha. Why should we aspire to less than our ancestors?

Education has lost its way; we need to look to the soul to recover and remember our "original relationship to the universe".  Full paper

For the classroom...

Helping Students to Reflect

Engaging the imagination and the soul through explorations, ideas, play and questioning.

Doorways to the Soul: Wisdom Tales

Stories and activities to engage the soul.

Books on Spirituality in Education

State, National and International Statements

"Schooling provides a foundation for young Australians' intellectual, physical, social, moral, spiritual and aesthetic development." (The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century, 1999)  

"We commit ourselves to work towards the development of effective mechanisms that will facilitate from earliest childhood the expression by young people of inherent Soul qualities such as love, creativity, tolerance, joy, goodwill, beauty and wisdom; We declare the right to Soul-nourishing education as a fundamental human right which it is the responsibility of each individual, community and nation to freely undertake." (Global Declaration of Soul Education, 2000)

"Learning to live full, healthy lives supports the development of the whole person - mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual." (Values and Purposes of Tasmanian Education, 2001)

Have you ever wondered...?

What is it like to really experience our Galaxy?
Heart of the Cosmos

What is your Spiritual Intelligence - SQ?

Are you spiritually mature?

Quote

"Children are whole human beings, not incomplete adults!"
Prentice

The lead article in the current issue is "Teaching for Wisdom" by Tobin Hart, who argues that wisdom does not result from the accumulation of facts but from the cultivation of the ability to "look at things from a greater height." 

Encounter Magazine Education for Meaning and Social Justice, Holistic Education Press.

Web Site and Discussion List

HENT has a comprehensive web site and there is a national discussion list on holistic education hosted by EdNA. 

WWW Site

Sophia Center: Spirituality for the New Millennium

At the Sophia Center you will be nurtured by a remarkable faculty dedicated to fostering a greater understanding of the unfolding universe and its implications for the world and its ways.

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