Articles & Press
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Listen and Learn: Equity, Embodied Pedagogies, and Engaging Asian American Buddhists
by Chenxing Han and Andy Housiaux
In Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education
Mirroring the emergent and adaptive methods of L2BB, this article incorporates student voices, narrative interviews, and methodological reflections to advance our claim that an embodied, listening-first model of learning avoids common pitfalls of community-based learning while enabling students to develop a more accurate picture of racial and religious minorities in the United States. [request article]
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Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard: Recentering the Marginalized, Welcoming the Unknown
by Chenxing Han and Andy Housiaux
In With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes, edited by Lucinda Mosher, Elinor Pierce, and Or Rose (Orbis Books)
Nervous and excited, we piled into the Suburban that would serve as our behemoth of a ride for the next week of temple visits and drove the twenty-five minutes to Chua Tuong Van, a Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Lowell, Massachusetts. [request chapter]
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Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard
by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
In Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
About half an hour north of Boston, close to the New Hampshire border, lies an area of Massachusetts known as the Merrimack Valley. It’s a mix of rural areas and small cities, but what’s often overlooked is the region’s diverse, vibrant Buddhist community.
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The Arrow in America’s Heart
by Elizabeth Dias
In The New York Times
Two days after the massacre of children in Uvalde, Texas, and 12 days after the racist mass killing in Buffalo, Chenxing Han, a chaplain and teacher, told a Buddhist parable.
A man is shot with a poisoned arrow, Ms. Han recounted as she drove a group of high school seniors to visit a Thai temple in Massachusetts.
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5 Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects
by Jennifer Gonzalez
In The Cult of Pedagogy blog
Collaboration has been a prominent topic in education for a long time. Those who recognize its importance regularly point out that working together to solve problems and create new things is a vital part of life, so it makes sense to practice it in school. Ideally, we’ll have students work together frequently, because the skills needed to make collaboration work well take a lot of practice.
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Back to Basics, Not Back to “Normal”
by Eric Hudson
In the Global Online Academy blog
Now more than ever, students and teachers want to know the work they do in school has meaning and value in the world beyond it. Three of the schools I worked with explicitly connected their work on competency-based goals with visits and connections to local organizations. One of the benefits of competency-based, rather than content-based, goals is they open new possibilities about where and with whom learning can happen.
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Listening to the Buddhists in our Backyard
by Middle Way Education
On the Middle Way Education website
This initiative, co-created by high school students and faculty at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, might inspire teachers to link their classrooms to their local Buddhist communities. Through active engagement, the students were guided to explore the Buddhist resources and traditions that were flourishing around their campus community. They presented their findings in this thoughtful presentation.
Conferences
We’re excited to be presenting about L2BB at these upcoming conferences:
American Academy of Religion · San Antonio, TX · November 20, 2024
National Network of Schools in Partnership · Washington, DC · January 25–26, 2024
…and grateful for the opportunity to share about L2BB at these past conferences:
Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women · Seoul, Korea · June 23–27, 2023
Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education Summer Institute for Teaching about World Religions · Saint Thomas Choir School, New York, NY · June 20, 2023
National Association of Independent Schools · Las Vegas, NV, February 22–24, 2023
The Future of American Buddhism · Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY · June 2–5, 2022
Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative · University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA · July 12–14, 2022
Kindred Projects
Thank you to the following courses for informing and inspiring our pedagogical thinking for L2BB:
Transnational Buddhism through Digital Mapping, an undergrad course taught by Daigengna Duoer at UC Santa Barbara, sponsored by the Creative Computing Initiative at UCSB (Summer Session B, 2022)
Check out the incredible ArcGIS StoryMaps that the students created: American Buddhist Meditation Temple, Bodhi Path Buddhist Centers, and Zen Buddhism in California
Buddhism in the Bay Area, an undergrad course taught by Dr. Trent Walker at Stanford University (Fall Quarter, 2022)
Religions in the City: Introduction to Interreligious Engagement, a course for all first-year MDiv students taught by Dr. John Thatamanil and teaching fellows Neonu Jewell and Upayadhi at Union Theological Seminary (Fall Semester, 2022)