Racism has been rearing its ugly head again lately in the U.S.A.; showing its face shamelessly and without remorse. It seems the election cycle often brings it out for whatever reason. But this goes much deeper than political mediocrity.
My oldest son proudly plays on a quite diverse soccer team for his high school. In [...]
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The Home Planet Earth video is now available. It is a beautiful world geography activity. Here are some simple ideas of how you can use it in the classroom and/or as part of a stunning performance.
The song “Home Planet Earth” travels alphabetically through 56 countries (including one continent) around the world. It introduces students to [...]
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“Teaching” the difference between sustainable and non-sustainable values, attitudes and practices towards ourselves, our brothers and sisters around the world and to the earth (our host) leads beautifully to the following analogy:
Let’s say we are guests in a foreign country. The language is different, people look different, foods and customs and habits are different, the [...]
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We’ve been asked by primary school teachers how do we suggest using the Tri Paks?
The Tri Paks in the www.SongsToEducate.com website are thematic song trilogies; groups of three songs that go together well musically and content-wise within a specific theme. They are a threefold exploration of specific subjects.
For example, for primary grade Social Studies [...]
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The Talking Hands Talking Feet online resource is now up and running! It is called Songs to Educate. The aim of it is to provide an easily accessible and affordable service to educators inspired by arts integrated education.
Songs to Educate offers original curriculum based songs with dance accompaniment (instructional videos) all of which are easily [...]
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Chapter Five - The Moon
After our return to Azpitia, our lives carried on as usual on the outside, following the rhythm of the various village development projects, but on the inside - we had changed. Up until the time of our Andean trek, there was an ever present, palpable tension between Luis and the Gringo [...]
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Sometimes we feel connected to complete strangers, not really knowing why. It happened to me during the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa. I’ve rarely watched soccer on television. But this year I was gripped by it for two reasons: Because it was taking place in South Africa, which is a miracle in [...]
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Some of the greatest gifts of the human spirit are born out of sheer difficulty. Sometimes the “impossibility’ of a situation is an invitation to rise above what we think is possible!
This summer we spent two weeks in New York as guest artists in two different summer camps. We were working with girls [...]
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Chapter Four
Ayaviri
This was a threshold day. Here we were, straddling two worlds, standing at 16,000 feet above the sea; the Pacific slope behind us and the Andean interior in front of us - an endless landscape of peaks rising to between 16 and 24 thousand feet reaching up into a deep cobalt [...]
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Chapter Three
Llongote Pass
We woke the next morning to the mouth watering smell of what we found out was fried guinea pig meat, which we had for breakfast before we were given a sweet send off by our hosts. Down an immense valley we walked following well traveled paths leading us back to the [...]
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Paul A. Zeir is co-founder and creative director of Talking Hands Talking Feet. He composes, performs and orchestrates the music theater aspect of the programs. Human development and education combined with human theater arts are Paul’s background and training. He has spent many years living with and visiting indigenous communities in South, Central and North America and South Africa where he discovered the rich tapestry of natural human theater endemic to native peoples around the world. He studied at Northern Arizona University, Colorado University, the Global Academy of the Institute of Cultural Affairs and continues vital research to this day. His passion for Arts Integrated Education stems from his belief that true education cannot be separate from the arts and a deep understanding of the human potential. Talking Hands Talking Feet began with becoming a father in 1995. His primary wish as a parent was to provide a rich and loving multi-layered learning ecology in the home and family life which included natural human theater arts. Thus the adventure into children’s education began! With great passion and a love and gift for engaging children he has developed this valuable body of work furthering Arts Integrated Education internationally.
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