Introduction to contemplative practices and anti-oppressive pedagogies for higher education / Greta Gaard and Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp -- Pursuing antiracist and anticolonial approaches to contemplative practices / Janelle Adsit -- Eco-grief and climate anxiety in the classroom / Jennifer Atkinson -- Contemplative pedagogies, environmental literature, and the srt of "interbeing" / Darin Pradittatsanee -- Literary reading, mindfulness, and climate justice : an experiment in contemplative ecocritical pedagogy / Anne Raine -- Mindfulness, writing, and sustainable happiness in the anthropocene / Greta Gaard -- Inner tracking : a reflective practice for transformative learning / David J. Voelker -- A mindful approach to teaching art and yoga as a means of liberation / Jan Estep -- Contemplative practices for teaching the sciences / Franklin M. Chen -- Enhancing students' mindfulness practice through philosophy of mind / Sam Cocks -- Creating mindful and self-aware counseling practitioners : centering privilege and oppression / Teysha L. Bowser, Renae Swanson, and Amney J. Harper -- Reflections on developing a campus-wide workshop series on contemplative practice and social justice / Jennifer Daubenmier, Christopher J. Koenig, Maiya Evans, Lisa Moore, Michele J. Eliason -- Using neuroscience and mindfulness to form new habits of mind around race / Reneé Owen and Danaé Aicher -- Contemplative learning communities : transforming universities by embedding contemplative practices in the academic life / Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp.
Summary:
"This volume explores mindfulness and other contemplative approaches as strategic tools for cultivating anti-oppressive pedagogies in higher education. Research confirms that simply providing students with evidence and narratives of economic, social, and environmental injustices proves insufficient in developing awareness and eliciting responses of empathy, solidarity, and a desire to act for change. From the environmental humanities to the environmental sciences, legal studies, psychology and counseling, educators from a range of geographical and disciplinary standpoints describe their research-based mindfulness pedagogies. Chapters explore how to interrupt and interrogate oppression through contemplative teaching tools, assignments, and strategies that create greater awareness and facilitate deeper engagement with learning contents, contexts, and communities. Providing a framework that facilitates awareness of the links between historic and current oppression, self-identity, and trauma, and creating a transformative learning experience through mindfulness, this book is a must-read for faculty and educators interested in intersections of mindfulness, contemplative pedagogies and anti-oppression"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.