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Informationen zum Autor By Ira Rabois Klappentext Teachers can't add more minutes to a school day, but with mindfulness they can add depth to the moments they do have with students in their classroom. Compassionate Critical Thinking demonstrates how to use mindfulness with instructional effectiveness to increase student participation and decrease classroom stress, and it turns the act of teaching into a transformational practice. Many books teach mindfulness, but few provide a model for teaching critical thinking and integrating it across the curriculum. The purpose of this book is to show teachers how to create a classroom culture of compassionate critical thinking. When students feel a lack of meaning and purpose in their school lives, they resist learning. Using a Socratic style of inquiry, Rabois changes the classroom dynamic to encourage self-reflection, insight, and empathy. Vignettes capture dialogue between teacher and students to illustrate how mindfulness practices elicit essential questions which stimulate inquiry and direct discovery. What bigger mystery is there, what more interesting and relevant story, than the story of one's own mind and heart and how they relate us to the world? Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPrefaceMindfulness, Creativity and Natural ThinkingHeart, Empathy and MindfulnessSocratic Questioning and Compassionate ThinkingIntegrating Mindfulness into Your ClassroomMindfulness as Practice for TeachersIntroduction How the Book is OrganizedNotes on the Inclusion of Student Voices in the BookChapter 1: Begin with MindfulnessWhat is Mindfulness? How Do You Practice It?Why Practice? Different Uses and Forms of PracticeMindful Speech The Hero's Journey Using Imagination and Visualization to TeachChapter 2: How Does the Brain Shape Experience? The Geography of the Brain The Emotional Areas of the Brain and How To Pay Attention Emotional Pathways and What We Pay Attention To Chapter 3: Emotion and the Quality of Your Mental State A Philosophical and Buddhist Inquiry into Suffering What Is Anger? Should I or Shouldn't I? Anger and Kindness.Joy and Fear.Understanding and Letting Go of Anxiety Greed and Human History Chapter 4: Emotions of Opening and ApproachWhat is Empathy and Compassion? What is Love? What Attracts One Person To Another? Chapter 5: Compassionate Critical Thinking is a Process Of Mindful QuestioningQuestioning and Beginning the Process of Critical Thinking How Does Inner Silence Assist Thinking? The Role of Self-Reflection in Compassionate Critical Thinking Conclusion AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Further ResourcesAbout the Author Index...
