Conclusion: The Reconstruction of ‘Education’ and the ‘Contemplative Turn’

Abstract

This concluding chapter turns to locate the ideas proposed in this book within current discourses. The chapter offers a brief overview of the ‘contemplative turn in education’ and positions this book’s specifically in relation to mindfulness-based curriculum ‘interventions’. I briefly point to wisdom traditions as a robust domain that lurked constantly behind this book’s ideas and explain the choice not to engage in it fully as a means by which to establish the authority and agency of the reader’s mind in the reconstruction of ‘education’. The book ends with a statement about the idea of the reconstruction of ‘education’, and ‘education’ as a path toward the unpruned mind.