| Titel: | Coloring in the Emotional Language of Place |
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| Autor: | Haigh, Marti |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice |
| Jahr: | --- |
| Band: | 14 |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 25-40 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Making educational places more inviting to learners is a key aspect of Invitational Theory. This paper introduces a simple technique for sensitizing learners and instructors to how their environment affects their feelings and ability to learn. It describes a learning exercise that may be used to assess, evaluate and transform places, to promote either calm reflection or creative energy as well as some experience based on three years of application in a college-level Geography course. The approach, founded in the Samkhya-Yoga conception of the three modes of material nature, asks learners to detect the roles of Sattva (peace, harmony, tranquility, awareness), Rajas (energy, action, creativity, destructiveness) and Tamas (inert, veiled, ignorance) working together in their habitat and to think about how this balance may be adjusted to positive effect. Learners found the approach novel but many welcomed this new way of envisioning their world. (Contains 3 tables.) |