Chris Hall: Common Arts Education

What are the common arts? How do they relate to a classical education? How do we bring up the whole human being, thriving in wonders of life and right ordered relationships? Join us as we discuss the search for balance and bolster both common arts and liberal arts in education. We encourage discoveries and provide examples and ways of instruction that proceed outside the boundaries of paper assignments.

Chris Hall is the founder of Always Learning Education, an organization dedicated to teaching, learning, and propagating the common arts. Chris has a BA in philosophy and an MAT in elementary education. He has been a classroom educator and administrator for 25 years, having served in public, independent, and classical schools. Along with his professional pedigree, he is a lifelong practitioner of several of the common arts profiled in his book. He lives on a small, homesteaded farm in central Virginia with his wife and three homeschooled sons. On this episode,  we will specifically be discussing his book called The Common Arts Education: Renewing the Classical Tradition of Training the Hands, Head, and Heart.

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Books Mentioned In This Episode

• The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
• Common Arts Education: Renewing the Classical Tradition of Training the Hands, Head, and Heart by Christopher Hall
• The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Guide to the Arts by Hugh of Saint-Victor
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Bible
• A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A New Natural Philosophy: Recovering a Natural Science and Christian Pedagogy by Ravi Scott Jain, Robbi Andreasen, Chris Hall
• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

Credits:

Sound Engineer: Andrew Helsel

Logo Art: Anastasiya CF

Music: Used with permission. cellists: Sara Sant' Ambrogio and Lexine Feng; pianist: Alyona Waldo

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