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...problem, as education guru Parker Palmer so aptly put it, is that we tend to “think the world apart,” treating each subject as if it should be examined within a bubble. Core classes too often fill us with names, dates, formulas, and theories for some infinitesimally small subset of a field’s body of knowledge rather than teaching us how these facts can be applied to our general understanding of the body as a whole, much less other disciplines. At the very best, Cores tend to be structured...
...inexpensive if you think you’re getting a 100-yard fieldhouse out of it,” he says.The bubble will help alleviate an annual space crunch during long Northeast winters, which force the varsity baseball and softball teams to use Lavietes Pavilion or the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts as practice facilities. Recent upgrades to Palmer Dixon, including the installation of synthetic turf, have helped ease the space problem. But the “winter fieldhouse solution” of the bubble is “one of the things we’re lacking right...
...students who were not on campus when Palmer originally offered the course, “Global Values 101” contains excellent conversations to read–even four years later...
...Palmer said at the colloquium, “Courage can be almost as contagious as fear...
Global Values 101 Edited by Brian Palmer, Kate Holbrook, Ann S. Kim, and Anna Portnoy Beacon Press...