Engaging With Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research: Realizing Transformative Potentials in Diverse Contexts

This collection of essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar's meditative inquiry in diverse educational contexts, showcasing how scholars from various disciplines engage with it from their own cultural and spiritual perspectives. It offers insights into how meditative inquiry can be incorporated into classrooms and contributes to the growing interest in mindfulness and holistic approaches in education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 318 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays delves into the profound transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar's groundbreaking work on meditative inquiry, a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living. With a vision to awaken awareness, intelligence, compassion, collaboration, and aesthetic sensibility among students and their teachers through self-reflection, critique, dialogue, and creative exploration, this volume showcases unique ways in which scholars from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and geographic contexts have engaged with meditative inquiry in their respective fields.

It provides a sacred space where African, Asian, Buddhist, Indigenous, and Western scholars come together to engage with the idea of meditative inquiry from their own cultural, philosophical, and spiritual traditions, perspectives, and practices. Through a rich tapestry of themes, including arts-based research, poetic inquiry, Africentricity, Indigenous thinking, martial arts, positive psychology, trauma, dispute resolution, and critical discourse analysis, this volume offers insightful perspectives into how the principles of meditative inquiry can be incorporated into classrooms, thereby contributing to the growing interest in mindfulness, meditation, and other holistic approaches in schools and academia.

The diverse and rich contributions contained within this volume offer invaluable insights and practices for scholars, students, and educators seeking to explore and adopt the principles of meditative inquiry in their specific fields and contexts. As we embark on this journey of self-discovery and collective growth, let us embrace the transformative power of meditative inquiry and cultivate a more mindful, compassionate, and inclusive world for all.

Weight: 840g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367652265