READING LIST

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We ask that you be familiar with these materials prior to the start of the Summer Session.

 

Meditation in Higher Education: The Next Wave?
Ed Sarath
14 page .pdf file

 

Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning through Contemplation
Arthur Zajonc
A talk given at the 2005 Conference at Columbia University,
"Contemplative Practices in Education: Making Peace in Ourselves and in the World"
14 page .pdf file

 

The Fruit of Silence
Marilyn Nelson
A talk given at the 2005 Conference at Columbia University,
"Contemplative Practices in Education: Making Peace in Ourselves and in the World"
11 page .pdf file

 

The Contemplative Life and the Teaching of the Humanities
Brian Stock
View as a web page or download the 4 page .pdf file

 

Healing the Breach of Faith Toward Everything That Is
Frederique Appfel-Marglin and Mirabai Bush
25 page .pdf file

 

excerpt from Body and Earth
Andrea Olsen
29 page .pdf file (3 MB)

 

Recommendations from Peter Schneider:

excerpts from Courage to Teach: Introduction - Teaching from Within and To Turn Again in the Spiral Staircase
Parker Palmer and Karen Armstrong
4 page .pdf file

Imagined Settings, Described Environments:

A Czeslaw Milosz Sampler
Czeslaw Milosz
3 page .pdf file

Two Huts in the East
Renin and Po-chi-i
3 page .pdf file

The Laurentine Villa: Letter to Gallus, Book 2, Letter 17
Pliny the Younger
3 page .pdf file

The Tuscan Villa: Letter to Domitius Apollinaris, Book 5, Letter 6
Pliny the Younger
4 page .pdf file

 

Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
Mary Rose O’Reilley
We also recommend you read this short book.  Your college library or local bookstore may have a copy, or you can purchase it through Amazon.com.