Full Description
Cultivating a Culture of Learning: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education illustrates portraits of practice from a variety of teacher education programs, bringing together a rich collection of voices from diverse settings. Authors share their first-hand experience of cultivating a culture of learning as teacher educators and employing contemplative practices in their work with educators. Contemplative practices, pedagogy, and research are analyzed as essential components of cultivating cultures of learning in classrooms. Several chapters offer innovative models, pedagogy, and courses utilizing contemplative practices. The authors in this book advocate and express the importance of creating spaces where the inner life and qualities such as intuition, creativity, silence, and heart-centered learning are valued and work in partnership with cognitive and rational ways of knowing and being in the world. Authors explore challenges faced institutionally, with students, and personally. The insights and challenges shared in these portraits of practice are intended to stimulate conversation and engender future pedagogy and research in the field of contemplative education.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction- Kathryn Byrnes, Jane E. Dalton, and Elizabeth Hope Dorman
Chapter 1- Internal Ways of Knowing: A Case for Contemplative Practices in Pre-Service Teacher Education- Maureen Hall, Libby Falk Jones, and Aminda O'Hare
Chapter 2- Rock, Rock! Who's There? Mary-Ann Mitchell-Pellett
Chapter 3- Reframing How We Think about Learning: A Four-Source Model- Kristin Rainville and Katie Cunningham
Chapter 4- Using Contemplative Pedagogies to Explore Diversity Within and Beyond One's Experience in Pre-Service Teacher Education- Jeremy Forest Price
Chapter 5- Deep Listening, Authentic Dialogue: An (Inter)Connected Approach to Teacher Education- Tami Augustine
Chapter 6- Toward Persistence: Contemplative Practices in Community College Teacher Education Programs- Heather Bandeen
Chapter 7- Mindfulness and Student Teaching: Practice Makes Perfect (Just As You Are!)- Elizabeth G. Holtzman and Carolyn Obel-Omia
Chapter 8- Across Time and Space: Designing Online Contemplative Learning- Kathryn Byrnes
