Re-envisioning higher education : embodied pathways to wisdom and social transformation

This book will expand the horizon of higher education, helping students, faculty and administrators to return to their roots and be in touch with their whole being. This book stresses that learning is much more than just accumulating knowledge and skills. Learning includes knowing ourselves--mind, b...

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Other Authors Lin, Jing, 1962- (Editor), Oxford, Rebecca L. (Editor), Brantmeier, Edward J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2013]
SeriesTransforming education for the future.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613151
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-399-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Expanding the roles of higher education and contemplative pedagogies for wisdom and innovation / Jing Lin and Rebecca Oxford
  • Part I. Connectivity, virtues, and morality: New paradigms in higher education
  • Chapter 1. Re-visioning higher education: The three-fold relationality framework / Heesoon Bai, Avraham Cohen, and Charles Scott
  • Chapter 2. Education for transformation and an expanded self: Paradigm shift for wisdom education / Jing Lin
  • Chapter 3. Exploring unconscious embodied ethical transformation: Perspectives from daoist body-mind contemplative practices / Tom Culham
  • Chapter 4. Developing moral intelligence: Global, networked, and embodied approaches / Yi (William) Wei and Michael Wei
  • Part II. Transformative pedagogies and wellness, holism and peace
  • Chapter 5. Transformative approaches to teacher education: Becoming holistic educators in unholistic settings / Robert London
  • Chapter 6. Pedagogy of vulnerability: Definitions, assumptions, and applications / Edward J. Brantmeier
  • Chapter 7. Anti-domestic and dating violence efforts on campus: A case study of a holistic program / Laura L. Finley
  • Chapter 8. Teaching peace and wellness as the wisdom path / Alice Yeager and Sharon Howle
  • Chapter 9. Enacting indigenous wisdom within higher education pedagogies: An example from early childhood teacher education in aotearoa / Carol Smith and Jenny Ritchie
  • Part III. Yoga and meditation for wisdom, compassion and integrity
  • Chapter 10. The power of meditation in college learning / Fran Grace
  • Chapter 11. Yoga and higher education: Adding concentration, clarity, and compassion to learning / Ramdas Lamb
  • Chapter 12. The needs of the heart: Finding no-self in the college classroom / Geraldine DeLuca
  • Chapter 13. Embodying higher-education towards integrity / Oren Ergas
  • Part IV. Developing the ecological self and cultivating deep connection with nature
  • Chapter 14. Toward an ecological self amid an empathy epidemic: Higher education, psychology, and mindful connection with nature / Debbie C. Sturm, Anne Metz, and Rebecca L. Oxford
  • Chapter 15. Ground truth: Investigations of earth simultaneously spiritual and scientific / Jill S. Schneiderman
  • Chapter 16. Using hula to teach personal, inter-personal, and environmental peace / Sachi Edwards
  • Part V. Service learning and spiritual growth
  • Chapter 17. Service learning as civic and spiritual engagement / Ai Zhang
  • Chapter 18. Mindfulness meditation and service learning: Complementary ways of knowing / Jared Featherstone
  • Chapter 19. Locating self by serving others: A journey to inner wisdom / Cara Meixner
  • Part VI: Awakening education: Conclusion and new openings
  • Chapter 20. Awakening education: Toward a rich tapestry of mindful and contemplative engagement for social/environmental transformation / Claudia Eppert
  • Author biographies.