Foundations gathers the conceptual opening material from Nurturing Hope: Background Fundamentals.
These chapters introduce the origins, presuppositions, learning process, and evidence base behind the three learner strands.
Foundations chapters
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Foundations 1 | Source pages 1-5
Why Nurturing Hope and Why Now?
The opening invitation, reader orientation, and key terms for the work.
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Foundations 2 | Source pages 6-13
The Origins of Nurturing Hope
The practical and historical origins of the Nurturing Hope materials.
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Foundations 3 | Source pages 14-18
Some Presuppositions Underpinning These Reflective Learning Materials
The assumptions about rivalry, violence, hope, and relational space that shape the materials.
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Foundations 4 | Source pages 19-21
The Nurturing Hope Materials
How the three learner strands fit together as a connected curriculum.
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Foundations 5 | Source pages 22-24
The Learning Process
The role of individual and group reflection, voice, reason, and choice.
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Foundations 6 | Source pages 25-35
Mimesis, Change, and Relationships
How mimetic relationship dynamics shape rivalry, trust, change, and agency.
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Foundations 7 | Source pages 36-40
Reconciliation Is Grounded in Hope
Reconciliation as relational, structural, restorative, and hopeful practice.
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Foundations 8 | Source pages 41-48
Learning Together in Our Differences
Reconstructive education and shared learning communities across difference.
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Foundations 9 | Source pages 49-60
Hope: Private Hope, Collective Hope and Institutional Hope
How hope moves from personal experience into collective and institutional cultures.
Source notes
The Foundations body retains the source note markers from the printed Introduction. View the source notes as a separate apparatus rather than a normal learner chapter.