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Contemplative Studies in Higher Education : New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 134.
The complexities of 21st-century life-personal, social, cultural, and environmental-demand thoughtful responses, responses fostered and enhanced through contemplative experience. Contemplative education includes studies of the history, psychology, and socialcultural context of such experience, as we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiley,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Copyright page; Contents; From the Series Editor; About This Publication; About This Volume; Preface; 1: Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Education; The Big Picture; Characteristics of Contemplative Education; Theism and Secularism.; Listening to Others.; Diversity.; Listening to Oneself.; Contemplative Listening Online; Nature and "Interbeing"; Of Birds and Dinosaurs; References; 2: Contemplative Science: An Insider Prospectus; Part 1: How a Deemphasis of First-Person Experience Has Affected Science and Medicine; Science.; Medicine.; Part 2: The Science of Contemplative Practices
- The Self in the Brain.Meditation and the Self.; Meditation in Medicine: Effects on Clinicians.; Part 3: Contemplative Institutions; Postscript; References; 3: Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education; The Good News: The Increasing Embrace of Contemplative Approaches to Law Within the Academy; What's Going On?; Why This Is Really, Really Good News.; The Challenges: Evidence of Reluctance to Embrace Mindfulness and Other Contemplative Practices; What a Supportive (or Merely Curious) Law Faculty Member Can Do to Help; Conclusion; References
- 4: Birthing Internal Images: Employing the Cajita Project as a Contemplative Activity in a College ClassroomThe Cajita Project; Birthing Internal Images: Employing The Cajita Project; Step I. Introducing the Cajita Project.; Step II. Conceptualizing and Creating the Cajita.; Step III. Cajita Gallery Walk.; Preparation for the Cajita Project.; Challenges to Implementing the Cajita Project.; References; 5: Integrating Contemplative Education and Contemporary Performance; MFA Faculty Characterize Contemplative Education; MFA Students Characterize Contemplative Education
- Contemplative Education and the Development of Presence-in-PerformanceContemplative Education and the Development of Aesthetic Perspectives; Learning as Embodied Meaning Making; Conclusion; Postscript; References; 6: The Formation and Development of the Mindful Campus; The Mindful Campus Faculty Group; The Mindful Campus Student Group; The Mindful Campus: AY 2011-2012; References; 7: Koru: Teaching Mindfulness to Emerging Adults; Emerging Adults; Mindfulness; Critical Teaching Elements; Organizational Factors.; Teaching Factors.; Student Factors.; Koru and Transformation; References
- 8: Contemplative Pedagogy: A Quiet Revolution in Higher EducationThe Practices; Mindfulness.; Concentration.; Open Awareness.; Sustaining Contradictions.; Transformative Education; The Deeper Significance of Knowing; The Quiet Contemplative Revolution; The Ethic, Epistemology, and Ontology of Our Teaching; References; Index