Pedagogy Culture and Society
December 8, 2025
Christopher T. Mccaw, Haisu Sun, Julieta Galante et al.
This article presents a model for the application of contemplative pedagogy in higher education, with a focus on rich contextualisation and interdisciplinarity. We articulate a vision for a multiplicity of contemplative pedagogies and present a conceptual framework to guide the understanding, analysis, and evaluation of contemplative practices within learning processes. This framework draws...
February 11, 2025
Christopher T. Mccaw, Julieta Galante, Cullan Joyce et al.
This article presents a model for the application of contemplative pedagogy in higher education settings, with a focus on rich contextualisation and interdisciplinarity. We articulate a vision for a multiplicity of contemplative pedagogies, and present a conceptual framework to guide the understanding, analysis, and evaluation of contemplative practices within learning processes. This framework...
March 19, 2024
Winky Wing Kay Lee, Christopher T. Mccaw, Nicholas T. van Dam
2 citations
Mindfulness has all but become a mainstay in modern education.Yet, despite the incredible enthusiasm and increased application inschools, there remains significant divergence between advocatesand critics. Advocates assert that mindfulness practice promotesindividual and societal health and well-being. Meanwhile, criticsquestion the intention, and the social and political implications...
Critical Studies in Education
February 24, 2022
Christopher T. Mccaw, J. Gerrard
4 citations
ABSTRACT This paper examines the complex interweaving of the ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ in the affective labour of teachers. In line with theorisations of affective labour, contemporary school-teaching involves practices of self-work and self-making, as much as practices of curriculum and pedagogy. One emergent form of self-work, reflective of post-secular socio-cultural movements in...