Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Bridging the Disciplines

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

258 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000553024

Related ISBNs:

9781003201854, 9781032063492, 9781032063478

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/16/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Greta Gaard and Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Outdoors and Nature, Education, Earth Sciences, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Greta Gaard

Edited by:

Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp