Concentric Circles: Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Learning - Elma Ruther Harder & Muzaffar Iqbal

Elma Ruther Harder & Muzaffar Iqbal

PaperBack, 316 pages
7 x 9 Inches

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