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This chapter will seek to determine the salient features of the approach to education offered by the Dharma School in Brighton, UK.1 This is not to say that this school represents the Buddhist approach to education, by no means. It is a venture envisaged in 1990, which was initiated in 1994, and this is a reflection on its character and achievements in 2007. If you search the web it is difficult to find another Buddhist school that advertises itself. Of course, there are “Buddhist” schools in Buddhist countries, for example, in Thailand, and a Buddhist school in a Tibetan Buddhist oriented subculture, in Dharamsala, India (www.lowertvc.org), but these are not “alternative” schools in the sense evoked in this volume. Besides the Dharma School, the Shambala School in Halifax, Nova Scotia (www. shambalaschool.org), would be the only other candidate that has come to my notice.
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Erricker, C. (2009). A Buddhist Approach to Alternative Schooling: The Dharma School, Brighton, UK. In: Woods, P.A., Woods, G.J. (eds) Alternative Education for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618367_6
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