Sentipensante (Sensing / Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice, and Liberation

The book "Sentipensante Pedagogy" is a valuable addition to the literature on teaching, learning, and the academic life, as it encourages readers to unite their deep beliefs, values, and feelings with their analytical and intellectual abilities to transform teaching and learning in higher education. It offers an inspirational and contemplative pedagogy that meets the emotional needs of students and fosters their civic sense, critical consciousness, and community engagement. The sensing/thinking approach has been successfully adopted and adapted in courses and seminars across various academic disciplines, and the book provides guidance for faculty who want to create democratic, decolonial teaching and learning environments.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 03 July 2023
Publisher: Stylus Publishing

“Challenging, inspiring, beautifully written, and unusual, this book calls readers to find ways to link mind and heart -- thinking and feeling -- to transform teaching and learning in higher education. Laura Rendón has illustrated how one can unite one's deep beliefs, values, and feelings, with one's keen analytical and intellectual abilities...an important, thought-provoking, and unique addition to the literature on teaching, learning, and the academic life.”

The Review of Higher Education on the first edition

This new and expanded edition of the acclaimed and successful book by nationally-recognized student advocate, activist scholar, and contemplative educator, Laura I. Rendón, will surely find new audiences who are eager to create teaching and learning environments where the learner is fully present and engaged using the full capacities of mind, body, and senses; and where the learning experience can be simultaneously subjective and objective, a view which challenges the privileged notion that only reason and objective modes of learning are valid.

While the pedagogy can be employed with all students, Rendón provides support for faculty who work with low-income, first-generation, and racially-minoritized learners. Sentipensante Pedagogy benefits all students through holistically meeting their emotional needs and quest for knowledge, and simultaneously fostering their civic sense, critical consciousness, and community engagement. Rendón offers an inspirational and contemplative pedagogy that leverages student assets and addresses the rhythmic balance and interconnection between intellectual, social, emotional, and inner-life skill development. The book blends academic discussions about pedagogy and diverse world views as it inspires a new generation of faculty and staff to devel.

Weight: 331g
Dimension: 210 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642675771
Edition number: 2 ed