Reincarnation is a built-in education modality. According to reincarnation, individual souls populate the world in successive, incremental incarnations, learning or failing to learn lessons each time. Associated concepts include karma (often translated as fate or destiny), dharma (vocation or purpose), and the ultimate goal is to “graduate” from the system such that one no longer… Continue reading Reincarnation as educational heuristic
Category: Pedagogy
Three practices to increase listening capacity
It was my sophomore year of college, and a friend had just found me in the library and told me he had something private to tell me. He asked me to follow him to a secluded place that he might share in private, and I followed him out of the library, across the lawns that… Continue reading Three practices to increase listening capacity
On comings and goings: mentorship, freedom, and respect in modern education
The first student to whom I taught this method, in a one-on-one arrangement, chose to discontinue the process. We had been checking in once per week by way of a phone call, and after the first few there grew to be gaps in their frequency. At first this was due to my student taking a… Continue reading On comings and goings: mentorship, freedom, and respect in modern education
Practical applications for teaching and studying literature as a means to understanding self and world
As anyone knows who’s been following this blog, I’ve created a method of teaching and studying literature that helps us to get out of an othering view toward a text’s characters, instead identify with them, and through this process, learn wisdom about ourselves and our lives which we can then put into practice by transforming… Continue reading Practical applications for teaching and studying literature as a means to understanding self and world
Rationale as a form of safety
The other week a student I was working with expressed frustration at the experience of engaged annotation. “To switch perspectives every time a new character comes up is confusing,” he complained, “Can’t I just identify at length with the experience of one character?” While I agreed that he could, I also explained that the reason… Continue reading Rationale as a form of safety
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 