Concentric Circles: Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Learning: A foundational Text

by Elma Ruth Harder, Muzaffar Iqbal (With), Maktaba Islamia (Preparation)

This book can be used as a tool to guide our learning and teaching, and to revisit our orientation and infuse it with the Quranic worldview. It can serve as a springboard of teaching ideas, a resource book to direct the process of planning the learning experience, and as a route to ponder reflective questions about our experience as facilitators of learning. What is the purpose of this book? -provide an Islamic approach to learning -focus on learning that is transformative in nature -encourage those who teach and learn to reflect and reassess -the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘how’ questions of education In what ways will this book help us? -re-affirm our Quranic worldview -clarify our orientation and be committed to it -decide what to learn -decide how to learn -develop integrated thematic units -discover creative ideas for helping others learn -become flexible in adopting, adapting, and extending ideas -reflectively assess what we teach and learn -reflectively assess how we teach and learn -be filled with wonder and awe What do we need? -a desire to be rooted in the Quranic worldview -the belief that we are each on a journey of lifelong learning

316 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2016