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The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching

ISSN 2689-9132

6 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2020-2026

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Zeitgeist: A Spirited Exchange about Mysticism and AI-Generated Images (and more) with ChatGPT

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching February 26, 2026 Jesse D. Mann

This essay explores the intersection of medieval Christian mysticism and AI-generated imagery, reflecting on a six-week online course taught in summer 2024 at Drew University. A student’s experiments with AI-generated images of texts by Pseudo-Dionysius, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jan Ruusbroec, and Catherine of Genoa prompted reflection on pedagogy, ethics, and the representation of spiritual...

DOI: 10.31046/jcz4c640 (opens in new tab)

‘Teaching of’ and ‘Teaching about’ Meditation

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching March 30, 2021 Peter Romaskiewicz 1 citation

The growing interest in meditation and meditation inspired classroom practices has garnered a share of advocates and detractors. The recent critiques in Candy Gunther Brown’s Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools (2019) offer the most trenchant legal and ethical obstacles to implementing a contemplative education in American public schools. I trace the contours of Brown’s legal claims...

DOI: 10.31046/wabashcenter.v2i1.1942 (opens in new tab)

Now I Can See the Moon

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching March 30, 2021 Namdrol Miranda Adams

Contemplative education dawns in the 21st century with great possibility. Thus far, the field resonates with life and promises to expand American educational pedagogies with ideas of new epistemologies, dynamics, and languaging around why, how, and whom we educate. Much work has been done on the analysis of the threads that may inform contemplative studies, from our own culture and that of...

DOI: 10.31046/wabashcenter.v2i1.1923 (opens in new tab)

The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century (Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application)

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching March 30, 2021 Patricia O’Connell Killen

Benefiel and Lee assembled this volume to advance a newer thread of conversation in the field of contemplative studies: the attempt to move beyond its privileging of Buddhism and Western science.Their own experience as scholars of Christian spirituality who attended meetings of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and of the Contemplative Studies Unit of the American...

DOI: 10.31046/wabashcenter.v2i1.2836 (opens in new tab)

Integrating the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm with Buddhist-Inspired Compassion Meditation

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching March 30, 2021 Gloria Chien

While Ignatian pedagogy is distinctive in Jesuit education, scholarly attention on its applications is scanty. This article demonstrates the relevance of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) to compassion cultivation through showing how it integrates into a Buddhist-inspired contemplation program, Cognitively-Based Compassion Training® (CBCT®). Using a case study of a CBCT® course at a...

DOI: 10.31046/wabashcenter.v2i1.1753 (opens in new tab)