Full Description
How do we foster in college students the cognitive complexity, ethical development, and personal resolve that are required for living in this "sustainability century"? Tackling these complex and highly interdependent problems requires nuanced interdisciplinary understandings, collective endeavors, systemic solutions, and profound cultural shifts. Contributors in this book present both a rationale as well as a theoretical framework for incorporating reflective and contemplative pedagogies to help students pause, deepen their awareness, think more carefully, and work with complexity in sustainability-focused courses. Also offering a variety of relevant, timely resources for faculty to use in their classrooms, Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education serves as a key asset to the efforts of educators to enhance students' capacities for long-term engagement and resilience in a future where sustainability is vital.
Contents
Contents
Foreword. Paul Wapner
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Theoretical Underpinnings
Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation. Marie Eaton, Kate Davies, Sarah Williams and Jean MacGregor.
The Power of Pause in the Process of Human Development. Sharon Daloz Parks.
The Practice of Inner Habitat Restoration: A Contemplative Approach to Sustainability Studies. Kurt Hoelting.
Navigating Anger, Fear, Grief, and Despair. Marie Eaton.
Using Reflective and Contemplative Practices with Integrity. Patricia O'Connell Killen.
Part Two: Teaching Contexts and Practices
No Time to Think: Contemplation and Reflection in a Highly Technologized Learning Environment. David M. Levy.
The Practice of Place: Deepening Connections with Our Natural and Human Communities. Holly J. Hughes.
Listening Deeply to and Engaging Multiple Perspectives. Maureen E. Ryan.
Attending to Loyalties, Affections, Convictions...and Doubts. Jane Compson.
Make a Creative Response. Michael Gillespie and Karen T. Litfin.
Bodies of Earthly Delight: Engaging in Somatic Inquiry as Contemplation. Sarah Williams.
Sustainability from the Inside Out: Discernment as Practice. Karen K. Gaul.
Fostering Hope and Moral Agency for Eco-Justice. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and Frederica Helmiere.
Nurturing Students' Resilience and Agency Kate Davies.
Afterword
Contributors
