http://i-edu.org/blog Integral Education - John Gruber Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:24:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Inquiring In my botany class, we are completing a six week inquiry into food and agriculture, examining what we eat, what it offers us, where it comes from, how it is grown, who worked to harvest it, and how its production has affected the ecological and socioeconomic systems to which we ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2010/02/awareness-and-sustainability/ Thanksgiving I find myself looking up a lot in these past weeks – walking in to the building where I teach, my gaze lifts to the branches of tulip poplar and oak, the stones and bricks of the rooflines, the copper flashing, the chimneys, the sky and the morning light or ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/11/the-abundance-of-emptiness/ [caption id="attachment_131" align="alignnone" width="501" caption="october teaching"][/caption] Intention October lets go reluctantly like the remaining few leaves on the sugar maples in a misty drizzle of warm gray light. There is a pause in the season, the weekend of November's arrival, of returning the clocks to a time where the sun is highest ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/10/autumn-pause/ Timelessness I am just back from the most glorious, deep and inspiring gathering of integral educators on Whidbey Island in Washington. Beneath the cedars and a bright moon, we explored many facets of what it means to bring an integral vision forward into the work of teaching and learning. There were ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/08/each-moment-an-eternity/ [caption id="attachment_112" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="center point"][/caption] Listening In our teaching practice, we dedicate such energy and time and commitment to our students, to the learning community, to the pursuit of knowing or truth. Perhaps we are quite content to simply rest in the effort, enjoying the journey and paying attention to all ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/07/listening-in/ [caption id="attachment_104" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="reflecting presence"][/caption] It was the reality of existing things, It was the consciousness of all that lived And felt and saw; it was Timelessness and Time, It was the Bliss of formlessness and form. It was all Love and the one Beloved’s arms, It was sight and thought in one all-seeing Mind. Sri ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/05/full-presence/ Where I teach, this is a season of great appreciation as we feel the nearing completion of another year of working together. The season itself seems to celebrate the growth and learning; all that has been created, all that has been shared. Students who are preparing to leave us and ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/05/seeing-what-is-%e2%80%93-appreciating/ What is this... Considering all of the gifts of this being human, we might hold for a moment the exquisite creativity, the breathtaking compassion, or the intricate intellect that arises alongside and within human consciousness. Yet beneath it all, there is this simple and always present gift of attention, of where ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/03/seeing-what-is/ The Voice replied: “Remember why thou cam’st: Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self, In silence seek God’s meaning in thy depths, Then mortal nature change to the divine.” Sri Aurobindo, Savitri; The Book of Yoga; The Parable of the Search for the Soul Ever Changing Our teaching ultimately is a direct reflection of ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/02/changing-states/ In my integrated science class this week we are thinking together about waves. As a physical science topic, waves are always a rich and rewarding area of exploration – we work with water waves, including surf and tsunamis, seismic waves, sound waves, and of course all the electromagnetic waves of ... http://i-edu.org/blog/2009/02/making-the-invisible-visible/