Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education

<p>This volume explores mindfulness and other contemplative approaches as strategic tools for cultivating anti-oppressive pedagogies in higher education.</p><p>Research confirms that simply providing students with evidence and narratives of economic social and environmental injustices proves insufficient in developing awareness and eliciting responses of empathy solidarity and a desire to act for change. From the environmental humanities to the environmental sciences legal studies psychology and counseling educators from a range of geographical and disciplinary standpoints describe their research-based mindfulness pedagogies. Chapters explore how to interrupt and interrogate oppression through contemplative teaching tools assignments and strategies that create greater awareness and facilitate deeper engagement with learning contents contexts and communities. </p><p>Providing a framework that facilitates awareness of the links between historic and current oppression self-identity and trauma and creating a transformative learning experience through mindfulness this book is a must-read for faculty and educators interested in intersections of mindfulness contemplative pedagogies and anti-oppression.</p>