Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research

This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar's work on meditative inquiry - a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living - in diverse educational contexts.

Auteur

Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada.

Contenu

Foreword - William F. Pinar

Artists Statement

Introduction Exploring the Transformative Potentials of Meditative Inquiry in Diverse Contexts

Chapter One My Journey with Meditative Inquiry: Teaching, Learning, and Researching in Law and Dispute Resolution * Nayha Acharya

• Chapter Two Ruminations on Dialogue as a form of Meditative Inquiry * Vikas Baniwal

• Chapter Three Exploring the Connections between Africentric Principles and Meditative Inquiry: Understanding their Significance for Teaching and Learning in Adult Education Contexts
  *Susan Brigham
• Chapter Four Martial Arts as Meditative Inquiry
  *Shawn Bullock
• Chapter Five On the Significance of Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Living: A Dialogue Between Two Teachers
  *Michael Cosgrove and Shannon Power
• Chapter Six Mindset and Meditative Inquiry
  *Adrian Downey
• Chapter Seven Arts & Letters: Meditative Inquiry as Invitation
  *Christina Flemming
• Chapter Eight Meditative Inquiry and Critical Discourse Analysis: A Hybrid Approach for Doing Educational Research
  *Mohamed Kharbach
• Chapter Nine Meditative Inquiry as Medium for Learning: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Love of Self, Learning, and Life
  *Margaret Macintyre Latta
• Chapter Ten Meditative inquiry in Dialogue with Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist Praxis
  *Christopher McCaw and John Quay
• Chapter Eleven Synergies between Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Meditative Inquiry
  *Diane Obed
• Chapter Twelve The Dialogic and Vulnerable Nature of Learning: Perspectives from Positive psychology and Meditative Inquiry
  *Krista Ritchie and Paul Stemmler
• Chapter Thirteen Meditative Inquiry and Mindfulness
  *David Sable
• Chapter Fourteen A Poetic Response to Ashwani Kumar's book, Curriculum As Meditative Inquiry
  *Susan Walsh
• Chapter Fifteen Structure, Consciousness, and Agency: Moving Forward through Meditative Inquiry
  *Debra Wells-Hopey
• Chapter Sixteen Explorations of Trauma through Meditative Inquiry
  *Rajean Willis and Laura Leslie
• Responses to Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research Response One: Meditative Inquiry: A Way Forward*
  Ardra Cole
• Response Two: Educational Research Methodology and Meditative Inquiry: Three Meditations
  *Michael Corbett
• Response Three: Becoming an 'Unreliable' Teacher: The Contribution of Meditative Inquiry*
  Anne Phelan
• Response Four: Meditative Inquiry and Reimagining Critical Education
  *E. Wayne Ross
• Response Five: A Queer Meditation on Meditative Inquiry*
  John J. Guiney Yallop
• Final Comments Contributors' Reflections on their Participation in *Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research
• Epilogue *
  Ashwani Kumar
• About the Editor

About the Contributors

Index