Concentric Circles
Publisher: Al-Qalam Publishing
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
Description: Concentric Circles—Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Childhood provides a clear and practical approach to planning, organizing and facilitating the learning experience for young Muslim children.
This book can be used as a tool to guide our learning and teaching, and to revisit our orientation and infuse it with the Qur’anic worldview. It can serve as a springboard of teaching ideas, a resource book to direct the process of planning the learning experience, and as a route to ponder reflectively about our experience as facilitators of learning.


What is the purpose of this book?
•	provide a holistic Islamic approach to early learning
•	focus on learning that is transformative in nature
•	encourage those who teach and learn to reflect and reassess the “what”, “why”, and “how” questions of education
•	initiate lifelong learning from a solid foundation
In what ways will this book help us?

•	root the experience of learning in the Qur’anic worldview
•	clarify the orientation of education and its goals
•	decide what and how to learn
•	develop integrated thematic units
•	become flexible in adopting, adapting, and extending ideas
•	reflectively asses what and how we teach and learn
Table of contents: label: Intro
title: Introduction