Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education

This volume explores mindfulness and other contemplative approaches as strategic tools for cultivating anti-oppressive pedagogies in higher education.

Auteur

Greta Gaard is Professor of English and Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA.

Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp is Professor of Counseling at Drake University, USA.

Contenu

Foreword
David Forbes

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Contemplative Theoretical Frameworks

• 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 Part II: Contemplative Pedagogies for Environmental Justice

3. Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety in the Classroom
   *Jennifer Atkinson

• 4. Contemplative Pedagogies, Environmental Literature, and the Art of "Interbeing"
     Darin Pradittatsanee

5. Literary Reading, Mindfulness, and Climate Justice: An experiment in Contemplative Ecocritical Pedagogy
Anne Raine

6. Mindfulness, Writing, and Sustainable Happiness in the Anthropocene
Greta Gaard

Part III: Contemplative Pedagogies Across the Disciplines

7. Inner Tracking: A Reflective Practice for Transformative Learning
   David J. Voelker

8. A Mindful Approach to Teaching Art and Yoga as a Means of Liberation
Jan Estep

9. Contemplative Practices for Teaching the Sciences
   Franklin M. Chen

10. Enhancing Students' Mindfulness Practice through Philosophy of Mind
    Sam Cocks

11. Creating Mindful and Self-Aware Counseling Practitioners: Centering Privilege and Oppression
*Teysha L. Bowser, Renae Swanson, and Amney J. Harper

• Part IV: Contemplative Practices for Community and Institutional Change

12. 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

• 13. Using Neuroscience and Mindfulness to Form New Habits of Mind Around Race
      *Reneé Owen and Danaé Aicher

14. Contemplative Learning Communities: Transforming Universities by Embedding Contemplative Practices in the Academic Life
    Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp