Touching Eternity

Author : Tom Barone
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774441

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touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as in educational research. Rather than drawing conclusions, this book is uniquely designed to raise questions about the consequences of teaching and learning. “An extraordinary accomplishment. I know of no other book like it in the field of education. Its pages reflect Dewey’s observation that one of the greatest of educational fallacies is that the student learns only what he or she is being taught at the time.... This book breaks new ground.” —Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University “The strength of this masterfully written book lies in its determinate inconclusiveness. It leaves many questions hauntingly unanswered so that they continue to gnaw at the reader long after the book has been put down...Barone skillfully encourages teachers to debate these questions and interrogate these themes. touching eternity is a book that demands our attention.” —Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, and author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution “Now more than ever, we need a book that shows us the subtle but long-term effects of a teacher who tells students, ‘Follow your heart.’” —Susan Ohanian, author of Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum

Author : M.B. Pranger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004189379

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Eternity's Ennui by M.B. Pranger Pdf

This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?

Author : Gary J. Acquaviva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004494749

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Values, Violence, and Our Future by Gary J. Acquaviva Pdf

This book identifies the character of human predators who violate others or themselves. The contagion of violence infects values that affect behavior. But we may call upon the intrinsic values of love, compassion, and creativity to oppose such violence. The book boldly argues for a renewal of the spiritual energy that gave rise to civilization.

Author : Airicka Phoenix
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1484991575

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Touching Eternity by Airicka Phoenix Pdf

Before Fallon was created to destroy. Before love became the ultimate weapon of destruction. There was Amalie and the horror that started a revolution that tore the fabric of humanity, of everything standing in the balance between power, hope and survival.Amalie has one wish, one gnawing desire — she wants to die. She wants to leave this world behind with its pain and darkness. She wants to finally breathe. But Amalie is a prisoner, a disease, not fit for life. She is unwanted, unnatural. She is defective, something useless and broken. Her own mother hadn't wanted her. Her father hated her. The world shunned her and the only person she had ever loved, truly and with all her heart and soul, couldn't stand the sight of her, couldn't stand the thought of ever being with her. She repulsed him. Her insanity disgusted him. He'd forgotten her. He'd left her behind, deserted and abandoned her to a madman hell bent on crushing her, stealing her soul and shattering her will. But what if she's finally given hope? A reason to live? Can Amalie finally accept the hand offering so much for so little in return? Can she love again when she has nothing left to give? Can she finally be free?

Author : Tonya Huber
Publisher : IAP
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607523970

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Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes by Tonya Huber Pdf

Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction (JCI~>CI). Founding Editor Tonya Huber initiated the JCI~>CI in 1997, as a refereed journal committed to publishing educational scholarship and research of professionals in graduate study. The journal was distinguished by its requirement that the scholarship be the result of the first author’s graduate research—according to Cabell’s Directory, the first journal to do so. Equally important, the third issue of each volume targeted wide representation of cultures and world regions. “Current thinking on ...” written by members of the JCI~>CI Editorial Advisory Board explores state-of-the-art topics related to curriculum inquiry. Illustrations, photography (e.g., Sebastião Salgado’s Workers in vol. 2), collage, student-generated art/artifacts, and full-color art enhance cutting-edge methodologies extending educational research through Aboriginal and Native oral traditions, arts-based analysis, found poetry, data poetry, narrative, and case study foci on liberatory pedagogy and social justice action research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555027068

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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England and Lambeth magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leanne Hadley
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441242426

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Touching Heaven by Leanne Hadley Pdf

Children have always been close to the heart of God. It is when children are sick, even dying, that they can suddenly bring us closer to God ourselves. Children's minister and former children's hospital chaplain Leanne Hadley has been ministering to hurting children for years. In Touching Heaven, she recounts the poignant stories and simple faith of the remarkable children she has been privileged to serve. She shares their encounters with God, Jesus, and angels. And with humor and tenderness, she offers their inspiring testimonies to the presence of God in our lives--even as earthly life is ending. Anyone who has lost a child or another loved one, or anyone who is currently supporting a dying person along the journey, will find in these stories comfort, inspiration, and hope of everlasting life.

Author : Jules van Lieshout
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489004

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Within and Without Eternity by Jules van Lieshout Pdf

William Blake's literary works are characterized by a ceaseless dynamics constituted in the fierce interactions of the language, thought, and narrative of his myth. Highlighting the critical problems facing the linear approach that the study of Blake has adopted from the traditional methodology of Newtonian science, Jules van Lieshout argues that nonlinearity is the key to understanding Blake's prophecies. Throughout his discussions, Van Lieshout focuses on the relation of Blake's Generation and Eternity, which he identifies as Bakhtinian 'world views'. In Generation, existence is finalized as a hierarchy of geometric 'dark globes', each assuming the character of universal whole to the exclusion of all others. Eternity, on the other hand, is Blake's fractal 'human form' of existence that is continuously organized and reorganized in the dynamic interaction of whole and parts. Blake represents these world views as interinvolved. Their dynamic interaction reflects and refracts his conceptual thought, mythological narrative, and poetic language. Hence, his visionary epic self-organizes into a self-similar complex system whose patterns of behaviour are not merely remarkably like those that modern applications of nonlinear dynamics are revealing in the physical world, but are indeed inherent in the processes of writing and reading his individual works.

Author : Gary E. McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191061882

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The Child as Musician by Gary E. McPherson Pdf

The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. It presents theory - both cutting edge and classic - in an accessible way for readers by surveying research concerned with the development and acquisition of musical skills. The focus is on musical development from conception to late adolescences, although the bulk of the coverage concentrates on the period when children are able to begin formal music instruction (from around age 3) until the final year of formal schooling (around age 18). There are many conceptions of how musical development might take place, just as there are for other disciplines and areas of human potential. Consequently, the publication highlights the diversity in current literature dealing with how we think about and conceptualise children's musical development. Each of the authors has searched for a better and more effective way to explain in their own words and according to their own perspective, the remarkable ways in which children engage with music. In the field of educational psychology there are a number of publications that survey the issues surrounding child and adolescent development. Some of the more innovative present research and theories, and their educational implications, in a style that stresses the fundamental interplay among the biological, environmental, social and cultural influences at each stage of a child's development. Until now, no similar overview has existed for child and adolescent development in the field of music. The Child as Musician addresses this imbalance, and is essential for those in the fields of child development, music education, and music cognition.

Author : Li Qu
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783689774

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Concrete Time and Concrete Eternity by Li Qu Pdf

This publication investigates how Karl Barth’s doctrine of time and eternity can contribute to the continued understanding of the relationship of divine eternity to time or temporality. Examining from a theological, philosophical and physical perspective, with deep emphasis on the Trinity, as well as Barth’s Christology and pneumatology, the author helps us to understand his theory on time and eternity. Barth’s contribution to the subject is significant, with his doctrine of time and eternity being relational in ontology, Trinitarian in background and concrete in character.

Author : Richard Leonard, SJ
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781587685484

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What Are We Hoping For? by Richard Leonard, SJ Pdf

Author : Aidan Nichols
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409431626

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Lost in Wonder by Aidan Nichols Pdf

This book explores the liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the liturgy carries can produce. Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

Author : Aidan Nichols O. P.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317103271

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Lost in Wonder by Aidan Nichols O. P. Pdf

This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the Liturgy carries can produce. The conclusion offers a synthetic statement of the unity of religion, cosmology and art. Aidan Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498286213

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Nurture in Time and Eternity by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

The dimension of eternity has been lost from much contemporary religious consciousness. Liberals tend to focus on action within time, as do conservatives, who see history as a battleground for a war of good against evil. Spiritual life, however, also requires nurturing a sense of eternity within time. These sermons from Marsh Chapel at Boston University follow the lectionary in highlighting the places of temporal life within eternity, and the places eternity is found in temporal life. The liturgical year is employed as the venue for articulating a comprehensive theology on the themes of the temporal and eternal aspects of Christian nurture.

Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812247237

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From Eden to Eternity by Alastair Minnis Pdf

Introduction : creating paradise -- ch. 1. The body in Eden. Creating bodies ; Bodily functions ; The pleasures of paradise ; Being fruitful and multiplying ; The children of Eden ; What Adam knew ; Creating souls ; Eden as human habitat -- ch. 2. Power in paradise. Dominion over the animals ; Domestic dominion : the origins of economics ; Power and gender ; Unequal men : the origins of politics ; Power and possession : the origins of ownership ; The insubordinate fall -- ch. 3. Death and the paradise beyond. The death of the animal ; The body returns ; Representing paradise : from Eden to the patria ; Perfecting children's bodies ; Rewarding inequality ; Negotiating the material ; Resurrecting the senses ; Somewhere over the rainbow -- Coda : between paradises.