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Mary Tasker

Mary Tasker has been a teacher and teacher educator. She is currently Chair of Human Scale Education.

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Review - Spirit of Place • Mary Tasker

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 • Indigenous Intelligence: Diverse Solutions for the 21st Century > Web Exclusives > Review

Place-Based Education in the Global Age

End Time • Mary Tasker

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 • Music for Transformation > Reviews

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray.

Thinking Differently • Mary Tasker

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > Reviews

Visionaries of the 20th Century (eds) Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield

HOPE AND OPTIMISM • Mary Tasker

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 • Earth, Wealth and Wellbeing > Reviews

Ecological Literacy (eds) Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow and Informal Education by Tony Jeffs and Mark K. Smith

COUNTERBLAST • Mary Tasker

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 • Nature Knows us - do we know nature? > Reviews

Teaching Toward Freedom

Review - JUNIOR CITIZENS • Mary Tasker

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 • The Spiritual Imperative > Web Exclusives > Review

Positive Childhood by Mildred Masheder

WHOLE SOCIETY SOLUTION • Mary Tasker

Issue 215 • November/December 2002 • The Power of Nature > Reviews

Sustainable Education

PASSION FOR PEACE • Mary Tasker

Issue 204 • January/February 2001 • The force of imagination > Reviews

Cultures of Peace

SCIENCE IN SERVITUDE • Mary Tasker

Issue 203 • November/December 2000 • It is a gift to be simple > Reviews

Playing Safe: Science and the Environment

NATURE-CENTRED LEARNING • Mary Tasker

Issue 202 • September/October 2000 • Homage to Gaia > Reviews

Transformative Learning

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS • Mary Tasker

Issue 199 • March/April 2000 • You are, therefore I am > Reviews

Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information

LEARNING FROM THE EARTH • Mary Tasker

Issue 196 • September/October 1999 • Myth of Progress > Reviews

Ecological Education in Action, and Sustainable Development - First Annual Report

OLD HISTORY, NEW TIME • Mary Tasker

Issue 194 • May/June 1999 • special crafts issue: A Tale of Tapestry > Reviews

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations and The Information Age, Economy, Society and Culture Vol. III

MARKET HEGEMONY • Mary Tasker

Issue 191 • November/December 1998 • Wildlands Philanthropy > Reviews

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

A MILLENNIUM CURRICULUM • Mary Tasker

Issue 189 • July/August 1998 • Right to a Way of Life > Reviews

Education for Sustainability

THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION • Mary Tasker

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 • Land reform in Britain > Reviews

An examination of some ideas for changing educational systems. A review of Education Without the State by James Tooley and The Power of Their Ideas. Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem.