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Contemplative and Artful Openings

Author : Susan Casey Walsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317265653
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Contemplative and Artful Openings written by Susan Casey Walsh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist poststructuralist theories and Buddhist-inspired practices, Walsh offers new understandings about what it means to be critical in research and teaching—and also what transformation, both social and personal, might entail.

Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research

Author : Ashwani Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100057539X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research by : Ashwani Kumar

Download or read book Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research written by Ashwani Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar’s work on meditative inquiry – a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living – in diverse educational contexts. Aspiring to awaken awareness, intelligence, compassion, collaboration, and aesthetic sensibility among students and their teachers through self-reflection, critique, dialogue, and creative exploration, this volume: Showcases unique ways in which scholars from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and geographic contexts have engaged with meditative inquiry in their own fields. Provides a space where African, Asian, Buddhist, Indigenous, and Western scholars engage with the idea of meditative inquiry from their own cultural, philosophical, and spiritual traditions, perspectives, and practices. Explores a variety of themes in relation to meditative inquiry including arts-based research, poetic inquiry, Africentricity, Indigenous thinking, martial arts, positive psychology, trauma, dispute resolution, and critical discourse analysis. Offers insights into how the principles of meditative inquiry can be incorporated in classrooms and, thereby, contributes to the growing interest in mindfulness, meditation, and other holistic approaches in schools and academia. The diverse and rich contributions contained in this volume offer valuable perspectives and practices for scholars, students, and educators interested in exploring and adopting the principles of meditative inquiry in their specific fields and contexts.

The Intersubjective Turn

Author : Olen Gunnlaugson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467680
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Intersubjective Turn written by Olen Gunnlaugson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education. A first of its kind, this book maps out current academic approaches in higher education to second-person contemplative education, which addresses contemplative experience from an intersubjective perspective. Until recently, contemplative studies has emphasized a predominantly first-person standpoint, but the expansion and embrace of second-person methods provides a distinctive learning context in which collective wisdom and shared learning can begin to emerge from dialogue among students and groups in the classroom. The contributors to this volume, leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of institutions and departments, examine the theoretical and philosophical foundations of second-person contemplative approaches to instruction, pedagogy, and curricula across various scholarly disciplines. Olen Gunnlaugson is Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development at Université Laval, Canada. Charles Scott is Associate Professor of Education at City University of Seattle and Adjunct Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Heesoon Bai is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Edward W. Sarath is Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies at the University of Michigan. Together, they are the coeditors of Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines, also published by SUNY Press.

Humanizing Grief in Higher Education

Author : Nicole Sieben
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371700
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Humanizing Grief in Higher Education written by Nicole Sieben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship. Featuring a broad range of contributions from scholars and professionals involved in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education explores the varied ways in which students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma. Set into four distinct parts, chapters deploy personal narratives situated within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socio-economic class, and politics intersect with experiences of personal and professional grief in the academy. A variety of intersectional fields of study – from positive psychology, counselling, feminist and queer theories, to trauma theory and disability studies – inform an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and finding ways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as key to developing a sense of hope amongst the grieving and those supporting them. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those interested in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counselling in adults, will also enjoy this volume. Finally, this collection serves as a companion for those who find themselves grappling with losses, broadly defined.

Arts-Based Educational Research Trajectories

Author : Barbara Bickel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811985472
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Arts-Based Educational Research Trajectories written by Barbara Bickel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers reflections from Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) scholars who, since 2005, were awarded the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The book includes essays from ten awardees who, across diverse artistic disciplines, share how their ABER careers evolve and succeed—inspiring insights into the possibilities of ABER. It also examines the essential role of mentorship in the academy that supports and expands ABER scholarship. Drawing from dissertation exemplars in the field, this book allows readers to look at how ABER scholars learn with the world while creatively researching and teaching in innovative ways

Canadian Curriculum Studies

Author : Erika Hasebe-Ludt
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 1773380559
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Curriculum Studies written by Erika Hasebe-Ludt and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely edited collection asks bold and urgent questions about the complexity, culture, and character of curriculum studies in Canada. Featuring 30 original chapters and 21 short invocations, this volume includes works by both established and new scholars, illustrating the wide range of cutting-edge writing in this area. Weaving together personal essays, poetry, life writing, and other arts-based inquiry modes, Canadian Curriculum Studies highlights the creative, performative, interactive, and imaginative nature of this field. The contributors were asked to provoke conceptions and understandings of curriculum studies by examining their convictions, commitments, and challenges with/in this discipline. By bringing together diverse indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship, the editors invoke the concept of métissage, which is finding a growing resonance both in Canada and abroad. Exploring the idea of curriculum studies as an interdisciplinary field across transnational contexts, this rich text is well-suited to senior undergraduate and graduate courses in curriculum studies and qualitative educational research.

Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness

Author : Lacie White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000578356
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness written by Lacie White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses’ approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying. Under the guise of stress reduction and self-care, the assumption often made is that mindfulness can smooth out difficult experiences. Instead, the objective of this inquiry is not to bypass the practice of caring in those spaces that are really hard, but to understand how nurses are working directly within them. Calling out from the shadows—and our bodies—the intensity of palliative care nursing practice arises. In this text, a dialogue unfolds of nurses caring in deeply meaningful practice environments while searching for ground that is perpetually shifting, uncertain, and fraught with suffering and strong emotion. Integrating literature across nursing, sociology, and contemplative scholarship, evocative stories from palliative care nurses lead in this conversation—their words in italics—showing how they are guided into action through connection with-in their bodies. At other times, stories show how nurses are taking pause and drawing on various somatic practices to unravel entanglements that touch on their own humanity. These stories also offer insight into how systemic forces, across educational and organizational institutions, are either enhancing or constraining the way nurses engage mindfulness as a relationally embodied ethic of care. This insightful volume is not a how-to guide, rather it is a timely resource exploring approaches for palliative care nurses to care for themselves and others with mindfulness and compassion. Those seeking nuanced perspectives, particularly in relation to embodying mindfulness through suffering and strong emotion, will be drawn to this text. Qualitative researchers studying emotionally sensitive topics may also find inspiration in the narrative, arts-based, and embodied methods that shape this inquiry.

Poetic Inquiry

Author : Pauline Sameshima
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622731239
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Inquiry written by Pauline Sameshima and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of a decade of bi-annual gatherings of the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, this volume serves as the fifth refereed symposium anthology. Enchantment of Place celebrates poetry and poetic voices—theorizing and exploring poetic inquiry as an approach, methodology, and/or method for use in contemporary research practices. Poetic inquiry has increased in prominence as a legitimate means by which to collect, assimilate, analyze, and share the results of research across many disciplines. With this collection, we hope to continue to lay the groundwork internationally, for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and the larger community to take up poetic inquiry as a way to approach knowledge generation, learning, and sharing. This volume specifically works to draw attention to the ancient connection between poetry and the natural world with attention to broadening the ecological scope and impact of the work of poetic inquirers.

Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice

Author : Jane Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317426703
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice written by Jane Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book collection disrupts received notions of educational leadership, culture and diversity as currently portrayed in practice and theory. It draws on compelling studies of educational leadership from the global north and south, as well as from a range of ethnic, religious and gendered perspectives and critical research approaches. In so doing, the book powerfully challenges contemporary leadership discourses of diversity that reproduce essentialising leadership practices, binary divisions and asymmetrical power relations. The various chapters contest and move beyond exhortations for leadership in increasingly diverse societies; revealing through their rich portraits of the hybridity of leadership practice, the shallowness of diversity discourses that are framed as something "we" (the culturally homogenous) leader do to (heterogenous) ‘others’. The volume is more than critique. Instead it offers readers new directions and possibilities through which to understand, theorise and practise educational leadership in the twenty first century. In portraying leading as a "relational practice in contexts of cultural hybridity" (Blackmore, this volume), it extends critical theories for and of leadership practice, examining the intersectionality between leadership and a range of social categories, and challenging notions of leadership as a singular construct. Compelling research narratives reveal educational leadership practice as nuanced, temporal, site specific and prefigured by traditions and cultural understandings that reach beyond a simplification of educational leadership as understood through unitary lenses of race, gender or ethnicity. This book is essential reading for academics and students of educational leadership and management, as well as administrators.

Reimagining the Academy

Author : Alison L Black
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030758591
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Academy written by Alison L Black and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the capacities and desires of academic women to reimagine and transform academic cultures. Embracing and championing feminist scholarship, the research presented by the authors in this collection holds space for a different way of being in academia and shifts the conversation toward a future that is hopeful, kind and inclusive. Through exploring lived experiences, building caring communities and enacting an ethics of care, the authors are reimagining the academy’s focus and purpose. The autoethnographic and arts-based research approaches employed throughout the book provide evocative conceptual content, which responds to the symbolic nature of transformation in the academy. This innovative volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting and rejecting patriarchal academic structures.

Education and Pedagogy in Cultural Change

Author : Wolfgang Brezinka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351616706
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Education and Pedagogy in Cultural Change written by Wolfgang Brezinka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of rapid cultural shifts, changing populations and new ideologies take hold and reshape political agendas and norms in the West. It is against this backdrop that Wolfgang Brezinka presents his controversial take on the impact these changes have made on the public education landscape. Offering his views on the historical context behind these cultural shifts, Brezinka argues for the development of moral and values education in the West and discusses the conflicting roles migration, divergent ideologies, and other factors have had to play. Focusing on pedagogy and policy, Brezinka puts forth a provocative perspective on the relationship between pluralism, tradition, and the future of education.

Contemplative Art

Author : Suzanne Frazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732169005
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Contemplative Art written by Suzanne Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative Art celebrates my twenty-five years of art making grounded in a meditative approach to creating. What is contemplative art and what is the difference between contemplation and meditation? How do creative people distinguish between using the right brain and the left brain? May you find joy in my philosophical approach to creating art. I share my contemplation.

Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education

Author : Giovanni Rossini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100024489X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education written by Giovanni Rossini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By foregrounding a first-person perspective, this text enacts and explores self-reflection as a mode of inquiry in educational research and highlights the centrality of the individual researcher in the construction of knowledge. Engaging in particular with the work of Thomas Merton through a dialogical approach to his writings, Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education offers rich examples of personal engagement with text and art to illustrate the pervasive influence of the personal in reflective, narrative, and aesthetic forms of inquiry. Chapters consider methodological and philosophical implications of self-study and contemplative research in educational contexts, and show how dialogic approaches can enrich empirical forms of inquiry, and inform pedagogical practice. In its embrace of a contemplative voice within an academic treatise, the text offers a rich example of arts-based contemplative inquiry. This unique text will be of interest to postgraduate scholars, researchers, and academics working in the fields of educational philosophy, arts-based and qualitative research methodologies and Merton studies.

The Artful Universe

Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791435809
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Artful Universe written by William K. Mahony and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.

Beguiled by Beauty

Author : Wendy Farley
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664266813
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Beguiled by Beauty written by Wendy Farley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative disciplines, such as centering prayer and meditation, have been part of Christian life for centuries. They seem hard to practice now, not simply because our distracted and hyperstimulated age makes them difficult but also because they can appear irrelevant to the needs of a fractured and ugly historical moment. Yet these practices are more essential now than ever, claims Wendy Farley. These practices essentially awaken and attune us to the beauty both of the created order and of human relationships. Farley helps readers discover being made for both kinds of beauty, with contemplative disciplines immersing us in it. Tying these disciplines with contemplation allows us to engage with the struggle for justice in an unjust society. Beguiled by Beauty includes practical advice for readers to learn several contemplative-meditation practices.

Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War

Author : Paul R. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136281983
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War written by Paul R. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious venture; rather, they argue that we are all, collectively, involved in perpetrating and perpetuating militarization/conflict/violence inside and outside of our own social circles. Therefore, education about and against war can be as liberating as it is necessary. If war equates killing, can our schools avoid engaging in the examination of what war is all about? If education is not about peace, then is it about war? Can a society have education that willfully avoids considering peace as its central objective? Can a democracy exist if pivotal notions of war and peace are not understood, practiced, advocated and ensconced in public debate? These questions, according to Carr and Porfilio and the contributors they have assembled, merit a critical and extensive reflection. This book seeks to provide a range of epistemological, policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play (and can play) in framing war, militarization and armed conflict and, significantly, the connection to peace.

Notes on the Need for Beauty

Author : J. Ruth Gendler
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Need for Beauty written by J. Ruth Gendler and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every other quality — courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom — is a part of us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal and impersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connections between the senses and the soul, between contemplation and expression, between ourselves and the world." In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives. Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the author looks at her subject in its most generous implications — not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Written with curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyrical sensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by the author, Notes on the Need for Beauty displays the strong personal voice that has made her previous book, The Book of Qualities so beloved. It is a work to savor and to share.