Antioch Santa Barbara Professor Attends Conference on Euducation in India
Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Dr. Carole Bergeron (Cohort 3) will present, Nurses’ Experience of Leadership in Assisted Living: A Situational Analysis, at The Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) upcoming annual scientific meeting this coming November.
For further information regarding Dr. Bergeron’s presentation and the meeting in general please visit:
http://www.geron.org/
http://www.agingconference.com/hotel_center.cfm
Additional information on Ph.D. in Leadership and Change can be found online at http://www.phd.antioch.edu.Dr. Hymon Johnson, longtime faculty member at Antioch University-Santa Barbara, attended a world conference on education in Andra Pradesh, India as a delegate from the United States in July.
Over 1,300 delegates attended from 96 countries to hear renowned educators and attend workshops on practical applications of universal principles associated with both spiritual and secular education. They also enjoyed world class musical and cultural programs from Russia, Austria, Pakistan, Thailand, India, and the United States.
The Sathya Sai Education in Human Values Program is a cross-cultural, experiential process of values-based character development for teachers and students, currently operating in over 80 countries.
Dr. Johnson’s service in public schools through Antioch University and the program was represented in an elaborate international exhibition. Delegates worked on creative, culturally appropriate applications of the unifying theme of Principles, Authenticity, Accountability and Service to Humankind, to incorporate “high thinking and practical living” in their work in education from elementary school to post-graduate education. The conference provided a rigorous, yet highly compassionate forum on the timeless process of education whose true meaning is best understood through its Latin derivative, educare, meaning to “draw or bring out from within.”
The conference promoted the idea that true education is life-long and, at its heart, seeks to draw out the truth, beauty, goodness and harmony that comprise the largely unconscious, yet very nature of the human condition. The aim is understanding used not merely for ego or ethno-centric purposes, but for the well-being and uplift of fellow human beings.
Antioch University supports the program as a nonprofit liberal arts institution with an historic culture of practical, experiential education based on principles of equal and inherent human worth and social justice.
Additional information on Antioch Santa Barbara can be found online at http://www.antiochsb.edu/.
