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books & readings

Description People Schedule Lectio Program Covenant
Week-by-Week Books & Readings Seminars The Work Useful Links
BOOK LIST In tentative reading order.  Selections from some texts (*) will be read in conversation with others, probably extending through spring quarter. Students must have physical copies of all lectio and seminar readings immediately to hand.

Gregory Cajete, Look to the Mountain, 1993, Kivakai Press, ISBN 1882308654

*Jean Klein, The Ease of Being, The Acorn Press, 1984, ISBN 0893860158

*Donna Farhi, Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit, Henry Holt, 2000, ISBN 0805059709

*Frank Jude Boccio, Mindfulness Yoga, Wisdom Publications, 2004, ISBN 0861713354

*Lee Hoinacki and Carl Mitcham, eds., The Challenges of Ivan Illich, State University of New York Press, 2002, ISBN 0791454223

Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text, 1996, University of Chicago, ISBN 0226372367

Maria Lichtmann, The Teacher’s Way, Paulist Press, 2005, ISBN 0809143038

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 1995, Vintage Books, ISBN 0679752552

Janet Frame, The Carpathians, 1993, George Braziller, ISBN 0807612987

George Lakoff, Don’t Think of an Elephant, 2004, Chelsea Green, ISBN 1931498717  

Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, 2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192805851

*David Loy, Lack and Transcendence, Prometheus Books, 2001, ISBN 1573927201

*Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies, 1993, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231070330

David Cayley, ed., The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich, House of Anansi Press, 2005, ISBN 0887847145

*Tony Buzan, The Mind Map Book, 1996, Plume, ISBN 0452273226 (optional reading)

Additional Readings:
Some articles by Ivan Illich, including “Ascesis,” “Education in light of the gospel,” “Text and university,” are found at www.davidtinapple.com/illich (will open in a new browser). "Computer literacy and the cybernetic dream" is available in .pdf form by clicking that title. (All .pdf files require Adobe Acrobat Reader, freely available on the web.)

Aaron Falbel’s “Learning? Yes, of course.  Education? No, thanks,” was originally published in Growing without Schooling and reprinted in Matt Hern’s Deschooling our Lives (1996).  You can find it at
http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/resources_falbel.html (will open in a new browser) or get a .doc file by clicking here: "Learning? Yes, of course."

Martin Buber, Meetings, edited and introduced by Maurice Friedman, La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1973, on open reserve for the program in Evergreen Library.

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