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This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar's work on meditative inquiry - a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living - in diverse educational contexts.
List of contents
Exploring the Transformative Potentials of Meditative Inquiry in Diverse Contexts 1. My Journey With Meditative Inquiry: Teaching, Learning, and Researching in Law and Dispute Resolution 2. Ruminations on Dialogue as a form of Meditative Inquiry 3. Exploring the Connections between Africentric Principles and Meditative Inquiry: Understanding Their Significance for Teaching and Learning in Adult Education Contexts 4. Martial Arts as Meditative Inquiry 5. On the Significance of Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Living: A Dialogue Between Two Teachers 6. Mindset and Meditative Inquiry 7. Arts and Letters: Meditative Inquiry as Invitation 8. Meditative Inquiry and Critical Discourse Analysis: A Hybrid Approach for Doing Educational Research 9. Meditative Inquiry as Medium for Learning: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Love of Self, Learning, and Life 10. Meditative Inquiry in Dialogue With Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist Praxis 11. Synergies between Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Meditative Inquiry 12. The Dialogic and Vulnerable Nature of Learning: Perspectives From Positive Psychology and Meditative Inquiry 13. Meditative Inquiry and Mindfulness 14. Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry: A Poetic Response 15. Structure, Consciousness, and Agency: Moving Forward Through Meditative Inquiry 16. Explorations of Trauma Through Meditative Inquiry
Responses to This Collection 17. Response One
: Meditative Inquiry: A Way Forward 18. Response Two: Educational Research Methodology and Meditative Inquiry: Three Meditations 19. Response Three: Becoming an `Unreliable¿ Teacher: The Contribution of Meditative Inquiry 20. Response Four: Meditative Inquiry and Reimagining Critical Education 21. Response Five
: A Queer Meditation on Meditative Inquiry
Final Comments 22.
Contributors¿ Reflections on their Participation in
Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research 23. Epilogue
About the author
Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada.
Summary
This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar’s work on meditative inquiry – a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living – in diverse educational contexts.
