Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education

Narratives Toward Wholeness
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-72546-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

The contributors to this volume – educators, student affairs practitioners, and higher education staff – heartfully share a broad range of contemplative practices and acts of resistance used within the confines of shattered systems and institutions for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. The narratives in this volume broadly imagine, inspire, recount, and guide readers toward the fullness of their humanity and wholeness within institutions of higher education. At the same time, these accounts navigate the operational realities of daunting demands on the mind, body, and spirit, the growing turbulence of working on higher education campuses across the country, and a sense of urgency toward collective life affirmation within modern higher education institutions. Each chapter features critical framing of a concept, personal stories of this concept in action, and descriptions of contemplative practices for readers to use in their own contexts. Together, chapter authors demonstrate what it means to be a contemplative practitioner attentive to issues of power, racism, and marginalization in higher education today. With a deep breath and mindful awareness, this book invites faculty and staff at colleges and universities on a transformational journey with the contributors toward fullness in pursuit of becoming whole and inspiring change.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson-Morris, David W.

Chatman, Michelle C.

Costa, Leeray

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Contemplative Practice is an Act of Resistance  Part 1: Ever Present and Interconnected: Symphonic Journeys, Rooted Practices  2. Teaching Best What You Most Want to Learn: The Way of the Crows  3. Unsettling the Colonial Shadows of Contemplative Practice  4. Cajitas as My Contemplative Practice  5. Contemplative Practices through a Black Feminist Lens: Badassery, For Real Love and Fellowship  6. Deepening Belonging: A Contemplative Practice of Relational Flourishing  7. Reflections Beyond Fragmentation: A Fractal Reconfiguration  Part 2: Conjuring Transformation: We Who—Know—Know  8. Revealing Healing, Wholeness, and Power: Sitting Zazen  9. From Body Oppression to Body Sovereignty Through Contact Improvisation  10. From Practice to Purpose: Contemplative Dance as a Method for Moving through Resistance  11. Creative Envisioning: A Contemplative Practice that Promotes Healing, Personal Growth, and Professional Development  12. On being (a) contemplative in higher education: ‘moving’ through familiar and unfamiliar spaces  13. Conjuring Transformation: The Magic is in the Process  Part 3: Pause  14. Cool Like Jazz: A Loving Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Black Manhood  Part 4: Rhizomatic Awakenings, New Plateaus: Rhizomes, Connection, Ruptures, and Lines of Flight David W. Robinson-Morris  15. Showing up Audacious and Bad Ass from the Edges & On the Margins Like My Ancestors Phyllis M. Jeffers-Coly  16. Our Skins are Membranes, Not Walls: A Multiracial Feminist Conversation  17. Dancing Barefoot in the University: From Burnout to Radical Presence  18. Alongside Aaron  19. My Rhizomatic Awakening  Part 5: Liberatory Relationality: Cultivating Collective Compassion  20. Cultivating Belonging: Compassionate Practice and Pedagogy  21. Beloved Community as Practice: Grounding Exercises, Care Teams, and Redefining Success  22. Why am I talking? Disrupting Dominant Narratives in Higher Education  23. Contemplative Emergence: How My Contemplative Practices Have Supported Transformative Change in a Higher Education Space  24. Enacting an Indigenous Decolonial Contemplative Mentorship in Higher Education: Meditations on the Legacy of Plenty Fox  25. Contemplative Resistance Amidst the Fires of Global Suffering  26. Afterword: A Ritual for Resisting

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle C. Chatman is Associate Professor of Crime, Justice, and Security Studies, Director of the Violence Prevention and Community Wellness Program, and Founding Director of the Mindfulness and Courageous Action (MICA) Lab at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.

LeeRay Costa is Executive Director of Leadership Studies and the Batten Leadership Institute, and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies/Anthropology at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.

David W. Robinson-Morris is former Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind), the Founder of The REImaginelution, and inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.