Contemplative pedagogies for transformative teaching, learning, and being / edited by Jing Lin, Tom Culham, Sachi Edwards
Contributor(s): Lin, Jing [editor.]
| Culham, Tom E [editor.] | Edwards, Sachi [editor.]Series: Transforming education for the futurePublisher: Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing Inc., cop. 2019Description: xxiv, 372 pages : il ; 24 cmSubject(s): Educación -- Filosofía | Meditación | Contemplación| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Course reserves |
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Biblioteca Universidad Europea del Atlántico Fondo General | No ficción | 37.01 CON | Checked out | 03/06/2024 | 4565 |
Psicopedagogía del Aprendizaje y de la Educación Historia y Antropología de la Educación: Teorías y prácticas |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SECTION I
Meditation: why and how can it powerfully transform us?
SECTION II
Programs transforming students through contemplative curricula
SECTION III
Mindfulness for teacher education and teacher professional development
SECTION IV
Movements as meditation: aikido and tai chi, and labyrinth walking
SECTION V
Working with young children and adolescents, and children on the streets
SECTION VI
Cultivating love and virtue ethics
SECTION VI
Learning and teaching contemplatively, reflectively, and relationally
"In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry. Contemplative inquiry, on the other hand, takes us on a transformative pathway toward wisdom, morality, integrity, equanimity, and joy (Zajonc, 2009). These holistic learning practices are needed as a counterbalance to the over-emphasis on positivism that we see today. In addition to learning quantifiable information, we also need to learn to be calmer, wiser, kinder, and happier. This book aims to find and share various pathways leading to these ends. This book will describe educational endeavors in various settings that use contemplative pedagogies to enable students to achieve deep learning, peace, tranquility, equanimity, and wisdom to gain new understanding about self and life, and to grow holistically. Embodiment is a central concept in this book. We hope to highlight strategies for exploring internal wisdoms through engaging ourselves beyond simply the rational mind. Contemplative pedagogies such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, dance, arts, poetry, reflective writing and movements, can help students embody what they learn by integrating their body, heart, mind, and spirit"--
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