December 1, 2011
Charles Scott
In this paper, we make the case that the purview of philosophizing in philosophy of education needs to extend beyond the rational discursive practices, such as, notably conceptual analysis and argumentation, and to include non-discursive practices that would yield epistemic and ontic fonns of knowledge that are of educational value to us. We base this case-making on the primacy of states of...
September 30, 2011
Kent Bicknell, Todd T. Lewis
T he treatment of Transcendentalism by twentieth-century teachers of literature and American history has followed a long tradition of focusing primarily on the European and American cultural influences on its major figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.Their work is seen as fitting into various Western currents such as...
Journal of Vision
September 23, 2011
E. Scilipoti, Takeo Watanabe
Meditative practices can enhance visuospatial working memory (Kozhevnikov et al., 2009) and sensory acuity (Kerr et al., 2005). It is thought that these effects are caused by enhanced attention to a given task, due to meditation. However, it is not clear whether meditation facilitates other forms of implicit processing that do not directly relate to attention. Here we investigated the effects...
Journal of Vision
September 23, 2011
Marcia Grabowecky, L. Ortega, C. Nwosu et al.
Attention and emotion are linked in critical ways. Emotionally salient objects attract and capture attention. Attention to emotional stimuli influences emotion processing and regulation. Meditation techniques have been used for millennia both to train attention and to regulate emotion. A common meditation practice involves sustained attention on the breath. Slagter and colleagues (2007,...
Oxford University Press eBooks
September 2, 2011
Patricia Q. Campbell
Beginning with interview excerpts demonstrating the different ways in which respondents described their learning experiences, this chapter sets out a framework for understanding various types of learning. It briefly summarizes the learning domains of Bloom's taxonomy, showing how these domains and the learning tasks involved in each relate to learning in meditation classes. Respondents...
Oxford University Press eBooks
September 2, 2011
Patricia Q. Campbell
This chapter describes the main introductory meditation classes offered at Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti Centre in detail. It breaks the classes down into their various elements—rites of entry, opening prayers, meditation practice, talks or lectures, and so on—and discusses each as formalized or experiential means of learning that are ritualized to one degree or another. Comparisons are...
Educational Action Research
September 1, 2011
Joan Walton
8 citations
A collaborative inquiry into how to improve the well-being of children was run over six months, as a partnership between Liverpool Hope University and a local authority Children’s Services. The collaborative inquiry was based on a living theory approach to action research in which practitioners became increasingly aware and reflective of their moment-by-moment practice. The Buddhist concept of...
CrossCurrents
September 1, 2011
Laurel Kendall
The Contraction and Expansion of Shamanic Landscapes in Contemporary South Korea Laurel Kendall In contemporary South Korea, shamans and clients navigate a landscape of sacred mountain space, a map that is being reconfigured by urban development, roads, congestion, and tourism but remains a sacred landscape nonetheless. I am following other anthropologists and critical geographers in their...
臺灣精神醫學
September 1, 2011
Chun‐Yi Lee, Jung-Kwang Wen
Objective: A socio-cultural model of depression in Confucianism-oriented societies has the basic assumption that its psychopathology is determined by the disturbance of a harmonious relationship with others. We present a case study in the context of the socio-cultural background to address the relevant issues regarding mental health. Case Report: A 46-year-old housewife patient with major...
Current Anthropology
August 1, 2011
Lauren G. Leve
49 citations
“Identity” is a key term for anthropological analysis today. This paper explores the challenge posed by modernist Buddhists in Nepal who participated in identity politics while grounding their claims to identity-based rights in belonging to a religious community defined by the doctrine that there is no such thing as a “self” in the conventional sense. Examining the sharp proliferation of...