Tahereh Javidi-Kalateh-Jafarabadi

Consciousness and Education: A Neurophenomenological Take on Contemplative Pedagogy

Journal of Philosophical Investigations January 26, 2026 Zeinab Mahdavi, Bakhtiar Shabani-Varaki, Tahereh Javidi-Kalateh-Jafarabadi

Objective: To investigate how contemplative pedagogy—rooted in contemplative consciousness—can reframe educational paradigms by leveraging a neurophenomenological understanding of consciousness as an irreducible, embodied, and emergent phenomenon. Method: This study adopts a neurophenomenological methodology, integrating first-person experiential insights with third-person perspectives on...