December 22, 2021 | By Corey's Digs
In conjunction with "Social Emotional Learning" (SEL), the spiritual education agenda is called the "Collaborative for Spirituality in Education" (CSE). It was established by Steven C. Rockefeller, Sr. to promote the spiritual and moral development of young people in and through the U.S., that is incorporated into PreK-12 independent and public schools to "provide a foundation for a young person’s intellectual, emotional, moral, social, and physical development." They have a National Council on Spirituality in Education and the Awakened Schools Institute which launched in October 2021 that is free to all participants and has a goal of bringing an "awakened school culture" into public and under-resourced schools. Their programs INCLUDE social emotional learning. It is all part and parcel to the obedience training and brainwashing.
The founders of CSE are Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where CSE's research and teaching hub reside, the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and the Fetzer Institute.
This is a 9-part series on the psychological agenda of obedience training being systematically unleashed on the entire population PreK-Adult in a lifelong learning journey, to move everyone into a one-mind, one belief system, and develop a global citizenship with a digital citizen workforce operating under tyranny for their fourth industrial revolution – and billions are pouring into it, with advancements already in 110 countries.
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Part 1: Introduction
The Creators of The Collaborative on Spirituality in Education (CSE), What It's Really About, and How They Are Working to Integrate it with SEL
"The CSE is planting the seeds of social change and nurturing spiritually aware citizens and leaders for a new generation."
In 2019 they held a conference on "Whole Childhood Education: The Spiritual Core of the Whole Child" where co-founder Tim Shriver of CASEL was a keynote speaker addressing the deepening of education with greater inclusion in community, and Steven Rockefeller Sr. was a keynote speaker on the critical importance of spiritual education for a democratic society. The goal of the conferences was to "launch an inclusive, coordinated movement of the many disparate programs that have been working within schools to nurture the spiritual core of students, using different language and different techniques."
"In the past 20 years there has been a growing national understanding that success and well-being require a 'whole child' approach to education. Social emotional learning, mindfulness, character education, values education, restorative practices, and other related programs seek to address the needs of children in a more holistic way. While much progress is happening through these programs, many leaders and educators are looking at how this work can be deepened and intensified." – Karen Barth, Executive Director of CSEIn Rockefeller's speech, he used the political divide, untrusting citizens in government and institutions, the so-called pandemic, and of course "science," as the need to usher in this new spirituality in education. "Wholistic education, including spiritual development, is needed in our schools to support and nurture attitudes, values and beliefs that are at the heart of the American democratic ideal and way of life," said Rockefeller.
Their annual conferences have been running since 2015, and in 2020, Timothy Shriver of CASEL was again a keynote speaker. President and co-founder of CSE, Lisa Miller, says that "the spirituality in education movement is about infusing a school's culture with spiritual principles that inform the way students and educators relate to and treat one another," which she refers to as the "unspoken curriculum."
Miller often cites philosopher John Dewey, who was a chief architect of Teachers College's educational philosophy. Coincidentally, in 1895, Dewey joined the Rockefeller-endowed University of Chicago as head of the combined departments of philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy (teaching), and established a laboratory where he could apply psychological principles and experimental techniques to the study of learning. In 1896 the laboratory opened as the Dewey School, and later became known as the University of Chicago Laboratory School. CASEL's roots are in Chicago. Alex Newman of the Epoch Times has covered Dewey's influence here and here, in two separate articles. Dewey was inspired by the Soviet educational system, is known as the father of America's "progressive" education system, and "was a co-author of the Humanist Manifesto, a religious document rejecting God and prescribing collectivism as the cure for society's ills."
CSE promotes spiritual and moral development within schools and assist educators with building classrooms around this agenda, and are building a movement through conferences, social media, and outreach. In 2020 they began bringing K-12 school teams of educators in for one-year intensive training programs in leading a spiritually supportive school culture.
In partnership with the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, they are also hosting the "Awakened Campus Summit" in April 2022, to support emerging adults through wellness programs.
CSE's Model
Their "11 Drivers of Awakened School Culture" include ritual, an authorized keeper, and "cultivating practices that nurture and elevate an augmented form of awareness through transcendent practice." They are spelling it "TRANCEndent" rather than "transcendent." They themselves wrote an article about it in the International Journal of Children's Spirituality, and in the forthcoming second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality.
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