Libro Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer De Michael A. Gordon

portada Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

Michael A. Gordon

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783030239527

N° edición

Categorías

Teoría de la educación

Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer

Michael A. Gordon (Autor) · Palgrave Macmillan · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer"

Drawing on the author’s lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional learning and well-being and to address stress-induced overwhelm due to increased pressures on the education system and its constituents. The chapters in this book explore the various ways, through the lens of this non-violent relational art of Aikido, that pedagogy is always something being practiced (on the level of psychological, somatic and emotional registers) and thus holding potential for transformation into being more relational, ecological-minded, and reflecting more ‘embodied attunement.’ Positioning education as a practice, one of self-discovery, the author argues that one can approach personal development as engaging in a spiritual process of integrating mind and body towards full presence of being and existence.