Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry

2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Review Kumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide transformative educational experiences to teachers and their students?

Auteur

Ashwani Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada.

Résumé
2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Review*

• Kumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide transformative educational experiences to teachers and their students?

Contenu
Foreword; Meenakshi Thapan Introduction 1. Krishnamurti, Macdonald, and Myself 2. On the Nature of Consciousness 3. On the Nature of Education 4. On the Nature of Meditative Inquiry 5. On the Nature of Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry Conclusion Afterword; Karen Meyer