Exploring the Dao-field
Sean S. Park, Avraham Cohen
Transformative Dialogues Teaching and Learning Journal March 1, 2010 DOI: 10.59236/td2010vol3iss31073 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that educators should cultivate inner work through mindfulness, martial arts, and psychotherapy, and proposes that Daoist and Buddhist perspectives can inform cross-cultural education where classrooms integrate body, mind, heart, and spirit to develop students' full humanity. |
Abstract
Drawing from practices of mindfulness, martial arts, and psychotherapy, we present a dialogue and inquiry into how educators can attend to experience through inner work.It is our conviction that schools that undertake education as a participatory endeavour in both knowledge and knowing, having and being, will depend greatly on our capacity, as educators, to see and attend to the different, yet inter-related dimensions of personal and collective experience.We draw, in particular, from Daoist and Buddhist thought as they offer cross-cultural applications to education wherein classrooms are seen as a field for cultivating our full humanity through a boundless integration of the body-mindheart-spirit.