Compassionate Critical Thinking
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2881-8 (ISBN)
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?
Ira Rabois recently retired from the Lehman Alternative Community School, a public secondary school in Ithaca, NY, where he taught English, Philosophy, History, Drama, Karate, and Psychology for 27 years. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan, a M.A.T. from SUNY-Binghamton, served in the Peace Corps, studied Zen and Japanese martial arts for 40 years with Hidy Ochiai, and took classes in meditation and Buddhist psychology at Namgyal Institute for Tibetan Studies, The Omega Institute with David Loy and Robert Thurman, healing meditation with the Consciousness Research and Training Project, and Proprioceptive Writing with Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon.
Foreword
Preface
Mindfulness, Creativity and Natural Thinking
Heart, Empathy and Mindfulness
Socratic Questioning and Compassionate Thinking
Integrating Mindfulness into Your Classroom
Mindfulness as Practice for Teachers
Introduction
How the Book is Organized
Notes on the Inclusion of Student Voices in the Book
Chapter 1: Begin with Mindfulness
What is Mindfulness? How Do You Practice It?
Why Practice? Different Uses and Forms of Practice
Mindful Speech
The Hero’s Journey
Using Imagination and Visualization to Teach
Chapter 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 Approach
What is Empathy and Compassion?
What is Love?
What Attracts One Person To Another?
Chapter 5: Compassionate Critical Thinking is a Process Of Mindful Questioning
Questioning and Beginning the Process of Critical Thinking
How Does Inner Silence Assist Thinking?
The Role of Self-Reflection in Compassionate Critical Thinking
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Further Resources
About the Author
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2016 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 345 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4758-2881-0 / 1475828810 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-2881-8 / 9781475828818 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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