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PROF. KAREN LITFIN
POLITICAL SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Assessing the Value of Contemplative Education
Centre for Teaching and Learning Yale-NUS College
5 March 2018
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Becoming Planetary
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Social imaginaries at the dawn of the Anthropocene
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Can we feel what we know, know what we feel, and act accordingly?
Adapted from James Zull, The Art of Changing the Brain. Stylus, 2002.
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Attention is the foundation of education.
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Rooted and Reaching
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Our Breathing Planet
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How can we protect the thin blue line that protects us all?
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Seeds of inspiration
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AgencyIntersubjectivityDemocratic deliberationBring it to the polisLearning and feedback
Study Action Groups
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Respite: Fostering laziness or creativity?Thankfully, contemplative practices at the beginning of class help me slow down and think. While I don’t usually have amazing revelations, my mind is refreshed and in a learning space post-practice. I’ve also noticed a change in my peers; the classroom is usually quieter and more focused.Imagine if Congress held contemplative practices before passing or creating legislation. Would better laws be made? Although I do not have the answer to that question, I do believe the atmosphere would be much less contentious if everyone was in a calmer headspace. ~John, HONR 392
My group for the action project had productive days and not so productive days. It seems that when we felt a resounding response to the contemplative exercises, those days were our most productive.~Simone, HONR 392
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“The biggest obstacle to creativity is being too busy.”
~Emma Seppala, Stanford University
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Organic intersubjectivity: Enacting planetary social imaginaries
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Resources
Association for the Contemplative Mind in Society(and Higher Education)http://www.contemplativemind.org/programs/acmhe
Curriculum for the Bioregion (search for ‘contemplative’) https://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
Oren Ergas, Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention: Positioning the Mind at the Center of Curriculum and Pedagogy (Palgrave, 2017).
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Karen Litfin, “Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for a New Earth” in New Earth Politics (MIT Press, 2016).
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Karen [email protected]
https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/karen-litfin
www.ecovillagebook.org