Oct 30 2006
Ordering Books
I took some time today to order all the books I needed for classes for which I’m registered. Being in a very non-traditional graduate program, I’m really enjoying the freedom I have to explore a range of topics, and then synthesize them into learning projects and experiences.
In all, I think I’m on an interesting and evolving path with my graduate program in Human Development at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. I’m beginning to see how I would like to integrate the “whole” of my studies. A large part of me wishes to teach, and to “plant seeds” within our current educational structures. So much of the Self-Discovery and finding of our unique purpose in this life is missing from education at all levels. I feel that we’re relegated to questions as “What kind of job can I get with this training?” , when the bigger questions of “How can I find my abundant and fulfilling purpose in this world?” are never considered.
Anyway, here’s a peek for you all at my “Reading List” for the next 8 months.
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming, by Winona LaDuke
Permaculure: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, by David Holmgren
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
by Daniel James Brown
Teaching Toward Freedom, by William Ayers
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go to School Tell Their Stories, by Grace Llewellyn
The Teenage Liberation Handbook, by Grace Llewellyn
Teacher, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Spirit’s Terrain by Christopher Childs
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day