{"id":3961,"date":"2012-03-11T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T21:52:32","slug":"no-to-neopagan-plus-other-pagan-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"No to “Neopagan,” plus Other Pagan Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022<\/strong><\/span> At Pagans for Archaeology<\/em>, Yewtree makes the argument (started by Graham Harvey<\/a>, as I understand) against using the term “Neopagan.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong><\/span> Lupa at No Unsacred Place <\/em>on greeting the land in a new place.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 At The Alchemist’s Garden<\/em>, can your spirit helper be a machine<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Finally, at This Lively Earth, <\/em>some thoughts on the pluses and minuses of celebrating Groundhog Day with kindergarteners in a post titled “What Are We Teaching Kids on Groundhog Day?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t stop the thought: And this is what award-winning education looks like.<\/em> It was education that had gotten the climate wrong, the animals wrong, and the children wrong as well. By feeding the students a pablum of anachronisms about the natural world instead of teaching them to sink their hands in mud, to feast their eyes on the colors of tree foliage, to recognize poison oak and name the first wildflower in spring, this brand of education disrespected the students. It inculcated a story from another time and place instead of encouraging the students to observe grasses or flowers or woodland using their own eyes, their fingers and toes, their ears, their skin. It treated the children as if they didn\u2019t have the capacity to appreciate or synthesize the results of their own observations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 At Pagans for Archaeology, Yewtree makes the argument (started by Graham Harvey, as I understand) against using the term “Neopagan.” \u2022 Lupa at No Unsacred Place on greeting the land in a new place. \u2022 At The Alchemist’s Garden, can your spirit helper be a machine? \u2022 Finally, at This Lively Earth, some thoughts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,48,5,81],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-nature-religion","tag-paganism","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-11T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":630,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=630","url_meta":{"origin":3961,"position":0},"title":"Rosemary KooimanAs one of my\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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