Tag Archives: Scholarship

Graduate study: environment, economics, institutions?

I like the cover… This last week Negin and I have been talking about graduate study in a more structured way. I know that I have a set of beliefs about human nature and human capacity, as well as a set of epistemological beliefs that inform how I want to approach learning and the generation [...]

A Framework for Learning about Baha’i Scholarship

In Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger discusses how groups of practitioners learn by pursuing a common enterprise. He defines practice as a shared history of learning — shared experiences of histories of participation and reification in the world. For example, the Baha’i world community is currently pursuing an enterprise of growth. Together, we are learning [...]

Baha’i Scholarship: Translating Belief into Action

Wow! After recovering from a rather painful sore throat + sinus congestion bug, it’s time to blog about the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies. Of course, I can’t do that justice in the five minutes available right now, so I’ll embed a clip of Badi, our homegrown hip hop hero, performing [...]