Nature, Art & Language - a consilience of science, the arts and language
Welcome! These lessons promote a sense of oneness between the individual, one another and Nature. Oneness is approached through a perception of patterns that connect across the disciplines, engagement with beauty through art, awareness that we are made up of and embedded within complex systems and consciousness that we and all lifeforms are the result of co-evolution. For Gregory Bateson the emergent property of this process is grace.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Red-winged blackbird from The Birds of America (1827-1828) by John James Audubon
After a while she looks up and says, "What did you see?"
"There was a whole flock of red-winged blackbirds. They rose up suddenly when we went by."
"Oh."
"I was happy to see them again. They tie things together, thoughts and such. You know?"
She thinks for a while and then, with the trees behind her a deep green, she smiles. She understands a peculiar language which has nothing to do with what you are saying. A daughter.
"Yes," she says. "They’re beautiful."
"Watch for them," I say.
"All right."
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, p.9)
Friday, September 29, 2006
Table of Contents
Conferences
BEFORE QUESTIONNAIRE (to come)
PHELMA/ENSIETA Student Public Conference - Why bother with ethics? 2 April 2009 - 1:30-6:30 pm - amphi Jean Besson - Campus - St. Martin d'Heres *ENSIMAG Student Reactions
PHELMA Student Public Conference: Let's speak science and ethics 13 November 2008: * Student Reviews and Responses
Part One
- Sophie's World: Writing Paragraphs
- Evolution: Listening comprehension
- Evolution of Attraction: Integrated Speaking
- Biographies and Character Descriptions (in prep)
- The Unspoken Language: 1 Short Stories
- The Unspoken Language: 2 The Plays
- Imagery in Haikus: Compound Nouns
- Introduction to Gaia Theory: Reading Comprehension
- Gaia: Daisyworld - Line Graphs
- James Lovelock and The Revenge of Gaia: Creating a Synthesis 1
- Poverty and War in the Sudan - Describing processes
- Sympathetic Magic & The Cargo Cult: Creating a Synthesis 2:
- Obama's rhetoric: Language of debates
Science and Ethics
- Connections - lateral thinking
- Social Responsibility of Scientists - Reading and discussion
- * Student Reactions and Comments
- *Gerard Toulouse Responds to PHELMA Students
- Why save biodiversity?
- Instrumental Value
- Intrinsic Value (in prep.)
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Nature - A New Zealand Case Study - Reading and Discussion
- Water Ethics: The Aral Sea
- Spirit, Intuition and the "Mystically Tone Deaf" - Relative clauses (in prep.)
- The Pugwash Movement: Anthropology 101 and Waging Peace Listening Comprehension - The third conditional
- The Tragedy of the Commons - Reading comprehension and discussion
- The Tao of Pooh -Reading Non-Fiction
- Siddhartha - Reading a Novel
- The Timeless Way of Building - Reading Non-Fiction -chapter notes (in prep.)
- Chimpanzee Violence and Torture - Essay topic
Grammar and Vocabulary Links
- Verb tenses - Englishpage.com
- Guide to Grammar and Writing Index - by Charles Darling - Sponsored by Capital Community College Foundation
- Webster's-Merriam Dictionary
- Giving instructions - Making an origami paper crane
- NAL Grammar: Time Travel - Verb tenses , Race Relations in France - Definite Articles ; Latinate and French words in English (in prep)
Part Two - Science and Culture - Seminar Topics
- Ariadne's Thread
- Primitive Art
- Girl with Pearl Earring - Modal verbs of speculation - Hypotheses
- Plato and The World of Perfect Ideas
- Our Responses to Beauty
- Cultural Evolution and the Paranormal - Susan Blackmore responds to students .
- An Introduction to Epigenetic Rules -The Savanna Hypothesis. Super-normal Stimuli. The Picasso Effect.
- The Biology of Comedy
- Biology of Attraction
- "Nice Guys Finish First" -The Theory and Language of Negotiations -( in prep.)
Shakespeare
Part 3 Soliya - Grenoble
Part 4 Environmental Concerns
Global Warming Links
WMD Links:
Part 5 Biology
Part 6 English for ECE
Vocabulary building for toddlers
Ethics and Sustainability links:
Language and Civil Society - Sustained Content Course Material for ESL and Peace Studies - US State Department
GILE Global Issues in Language Education - Global (International ) Education through content based language teaching. Special Interest Group of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers)
Cates, K.A ( 1998) Teaching for a Better World - Global Issues and Language Education. HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN ASIAN SCHOOLS Vol. 5, pp.41-52 - HURIGHTS OSAKA
The Natural Edge Project (TNEP) - Australian NGO devoted to contributing and communicating sustainable solutions - involves policy and education.
Ingenieurs du Monde - Developmental NGO - making a better world through sharing technology.
Photos from Flickr
Lotus by Bahman Farzad
blue marble (planet earth) by woodleywonderworks
References
© All Copyright, 2007, Ray Genet - Please feel free to use any of this material only acknowledge the source.
Genet, Ray (2010) Case Study: Soliya Connect Programme at ENSIMAG, France (pp.399-411), in Helm, F and Guth, E (eds) Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern, Switzerland
© All Copyright, 2007, Ray Genet - Please feel free to use any of this material only acknowledge the source.
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