Welcome to my website dedicated to understanding Mother Earth as the original democracy.
We are all ancestral stardust. |
earth language
Earth Language is the process of learning to live responsibly among the infinite, interdependent, systemic layers of a naturally occurring democracy: mother earth.
an introduction
This site is an introduction to the thinking, skills, activities, and relationships dsigned for teaching and learning with young children and their families about our responsibilities as human beings in relationship to the natural world.
human beings
Human beings are a part of a democratic root system so sophisticated that the operating parts seem to sustain life magically. The magic is in the ever-connected, balancing parts - microscopic parts, expansive parts, and the infinite in-between parts.
inspiration
The approach is inspired by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Kayanerenkó:wa (the Great Law of Peace), Alice and John Dewey, Octavia Butler, "Captain Jane", the Reggio Emilia Approach, Jean Sinor, Carlina Rinaldi, Frances and David Hawkins, Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Jane Goodall, Maria Montessori, my students, their families, my colleagues, my teachers, and most of all my experience as part of a family of three - Jon, Andy, and Meredith.
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