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Contemplative practices in higher education : powerful methods to transform teaching and learning / Daniel P. Barbezat, Mirabai Bush.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbezat, Daniel.
- Series:
- The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contemplation--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Contemplation.
- Education, Higher--Curricula.
- Education, Higher.
- Meditation--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Meditation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to:empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding;help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills;support students' sense of connection to and compassion for others; and engender inquiries into students' most profound questions.Contemplative practices are used in just about every discipline-from physics to economics to history-and are found in every type of institution. Each year more and more
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Parker J. Palmer vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii The Authors xxi PART ONE Theoretical and Practical Background 1 1 Transformation and Renewal in Higher Education 3 2 Current Research on Contemplative Practice 21 3 Contemplative Pedagogy in Practice: Two Experiences 39 4 Teacher Preparation and Classroom Challenges 67 PART TWO A Guide to Contemplative Practices 87 Introduction to the Practices 89 5 Mindfulness 95 6 Contemplative Approaches to Reading and Writing 110 7 Contemplative Senses: Deep Listening and Beholding 137 8 Contemplative Movement 159 9 Compassion and Loving Kindness 174 10 Guest Speakers, Field Trips, and Retreats 189 11 Conclusion 198 Afterword by Arthur Zajonc 205 References 207 Index 217 .
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781118646922
- 1118646924
- 9781118646885
- 1118646886
- OCLC:
- 862611941
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