Presence in the Online World - A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators

Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators addresses the challenges and possibilities of cultivating contemplative presence in an online teaching environment. It brings together proponents of contemplative pedagogy and experts in online education.

List of contents

Introduction
1.Guided Practice - Connecting to Land: Pause, Breathe
Bill Cohen & Karen Ragoonaden
2.Being Whole in a Graduate Online Classroom: A Contemplative Perspective
Agnieszka Palalas
3.Cultivating Emotional Presence: Building and Nurturing an Online Community of Inquiry
Debra Dell
4.Vignette - Support for Contemplative Pedagogy Through Shared Teaching Presence
Martha Cleveland-Innes
5.Grounding Presence: Beholding the Vulnerability of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning
Karen Robert
6.Vignette - Presence and Silence in the Virtual Classroom
Margaret Anne Smith
7.Connection and Compassion: Presence Inside and Outside the Online Classroom
Leslie Ann Jeffrey
8.Guided Practice - Presence With/In/Of Nature: Sit Spot Practice and Forest Therapy Walks
Monika Stelzl
9.Fresh Eyes, Beginner's Mind: Contemplative Photography and A Walking-Based Pedagogy of Embodied Presence When the World Goes Online
Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
10.Hard-wired for Presence in an Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators
Charles Scott, Heesoon Bai, & Laurie Anderson
Epilogue
About the Authors

About the author

Edited by Leslie Jeffrey; Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas; Karen Robert and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong

Summary

Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators addresses the challenges and possibilities of cultivating contemplative presence in an online teaching environment. It brings together proponents of contemplative pedagogy and experts in online education.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Palalas Jeffrey
• Assisted by: Leslie Jeffrey (Editor), Agnieszka Palalas (Editor), Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas (Editor), Karen Robert (Editor), Robert Karen (Editor), Yuk-Lin Renita Wong (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781475870251
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-7025-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education