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Sacred Playgrounds
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Author : Jacob Sorenson
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Sacred Playgrounds written by Jacob Sorenson and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Religion categories.
Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental characteristics with compelling stories, groundbreaking research, and theological grounding. Christian summer camp is an integral part of the ecology of faith formation in North America, though it has received surprisingly little attention in the scholarly community until now. Camping ministry is often dismissed as simple fun and games or a brief spiritual high that does not last. However, camp experiences often serve as deeply relational and immersive faith experiences that have lasting impacts on participants. Five fundamental characteristics combine dynamically in the effective camp experience: participatory, faith-centered, safe space, relational, and unplugged from home. Together, they open the space for participants to consider new understandings of God, to have time for deep self-reflection, and to build intentional Christian community. These camp experiences are essential components in a larger ecology of faith formation, including the home and congregation. The insight and evidence presented in this book demonstrate that the contributions of camping ministry must be taken seriously among scholars, Christian educators, and ministry professionals.
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Author : Jacob Sorenson
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Sacred Playgrounds written by Jacob Sorenson and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Religion categories.
Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental characteristics with compelling stories, groundbreaking research, and theological grounding. Christian summer camp is an integral part of the ecology of faith formation in North America, though it has received surprisingly little attention in the scholarly community until now. Camping ministry is often dismissed as simple fun and games or a brief spiritual high that does not last. However, camp experiences often serve as deeply relational and immersive faith experiences that have lasting impacts on participants. Five fundamental characteristics combine dynamically in the effective camp experience: participatory, faith-centered, safe space, relational, and unplugged from home. Together, they open the space for participants to consider new understandings of God, to have time for deep self-reflection, and to build intentional Christian community. These camp experiences are essential components in a larger ecology of faith formation, including the home and congregation. The insight and evidence presented in this book demonstrate that the contributions of camping ministry must be taken seriously among scholars, Christian educators, and ministry professionals.
Holy Ground
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Author : Gretchen Bachmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-15
Holy Ground written by Gretchen Bachmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-15 with categories.
This resource is tailor-made for summer camp staff serving at Christian camps in 2022. It includes staff training tidbits and quick reference guides for staff as they go through the summer, based on the research and expertise of our staff at Sacred Playgrounds. The centerpiece of the resource is a daily devotional written by camp staff for camp staff, with contributions from leaders across the country and across Christian denominations.
Holy Ground 2023
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Author : Jacob Sorenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-30
Holy Ground 2023 written by Jacob Sorenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-30 with categories.
This resource is tailor-made for summer camp staff serving at Christian camps - updated for 2023. It includes staff training tidbits and quick reference guides for staff as they go through the summer, based on the research and expertise of our staff at Sacred Playgrounds. The centerpiece of the resource is a daily devotional written by camp staff for camp staff, with contributions from leaders across the country and across Christian denomination
Playground
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language : en
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Release Date : 20??
Playground written by and has been published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 20?? with categories.
The Jews Of Summer
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Author : Sandra Fox
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-21
The Jews Of Summer written by Sandra Fox and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with History categories.
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish youth: institutions that sprang up across the U.S. in the postwar decades as places for children and teenagers to socialize, recreate, and experience Jewish culture. Adults' fears, hopes, and dreams about the Jewish future inflected every element of camp life, from the languages they taught to what was encouraged romantically and permitted sexually. But adult plans did not constitute everything that occurred at camp: children and teenagers also shaped these sleepaway camps to mirror their own desires and interests and decided whether to accept or resist the ideas and ideologies their camp leaders promoted. Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
The Infinite Playground
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Author : Bernard De Koven
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-06-21
The Infinite Playground written by Bernard De Koven and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Games & Activities categories.
In his final work, a visionary game designer reveals how a surprising range of play-based experiences can unlock our imagination and help us capture the power of fun and delight. Bernard De Koven (1941–2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. The Infinite Playground extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. It offers a curriculum for playful learning. De Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games. He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the world—observing, “the things we imagine can become the world.” Along the way, he reminisces about playing ping-pong with basketball great Bill Russell; begins the instructions for a game called Reception Line with “Mill around”; and introduces blathering games—Blather, Group Blather, Singing Blather, and The Blather Chorale—that allow the player's consciousness to meander freely. Delivered during the last months of his life, The Infinite Playground has been painstakingly cowritten with Holly Gramazio, who worked together with coeditors Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman to complete the project as Bernie De Koven's illness made it impossible for him to continue writing. Other prominent game scholars and designers influenced by De Koven, including Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, and members of Bernie's own family, contribute short interstitial essays.
The Novels Of Alex Miller
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Author : Robert Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-16
The Novels Of Alex Miller written by Robert Dixon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writing is his way of 'locating connections' and his work is known for its deeply empathic engagement with relationships and cultures. This collection explores his early and later works, including Miller's best-known novels, The Ancestor Game, Journey to the Stone Country, Lovesong and Autumn Laing. Contributors examine his intricately constructed plots, his interest in the nature of home and migration, the representation in his work of Australian history and culture, and key recurring themes including art and Aboriginal issues. Also included is a memoir, illustrated by photographs from his personal collection, in which Alex Miller reflects on his writing life. With contributions from leading critics including Raimond Gaita, Peter Pierce, Ronald A. Sharp, Brenda Walker, Elizabeth Webby and Geordie Williamson, this collection is the first substantial critical analysis of Alex Miller's work. It is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching and studying contemporary Australian literature.
The Simplest Words
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Author : Alex Miller
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-01-01
The Simplest Words written by Alex Miller and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Fiction categories.
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write. Alex Miller's stories are told with a rare level of wisdom and profundity, engaging the intellect and the emotions simultaneously. Stories are, after all, in his blood.
Design As Democracy
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Author : David de la Pena
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2017-12-07
Design As Democracy written by David de la Pena and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-07 with Architecture categories.
How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.