Children and Education: a Silk Roads Perspective


Resources in community and on the web.

Education:

A link to comrehensive Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) site

The Rudolf Steiner Archive offers summaries of his books, and listings of his lectures (over 6000).

American Montessori Society,

William Glasser Quality Schools

An article by David Marshak on Common vision: Parenting and educating for wholeness; three early 20th-century spiritual teachers-- Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, and Hazrat Inayat Khan

China Education and Research Network

Ruchika , The Train Platform Schools of India

Half the Sky, care for China's orphans

Geography:

Earth Images,

Silk Roads map resources:

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

http://www.silkroadproject.org/silkroad/map.htm

Silk Roads:

Time line of world religions. Many historical religions are not represented but the big five are here.

The International Dunhuang Project has a large collection of primary documents on line.


Silkroad Foundation
publishes an electronic newsletter edited by Daniel C. Waugh from UW.

A virtual tour of legendary Suleymaniye Mosque (former Hagia Sophia)

Over 1000 images of Japanese Buddhist art.

Silk Road chronology

Sur La Lune, a portal to the realm of annotated fairy tales and folklore studies

 

General Interest:

China:

Zhejiang University

 

Chinese zodiac, shen xiao

For more information contact
diamanth@evergreen.edu

 

   
   
   
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