The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [Hardcover]

InThe Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Patricia Owen-Smith considers how contemplative practices may find a place in higher education. By creating a bridge between contemplative practices and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Owen-Smith brings awareness of contemplative pedagogy to a larger audience of college instructors, while also offering classroom models and outlining the ongoing challenges of both defining these practices and assessing their impact in education. Ultimately, Owen-Smith asserts that such practices have the potential to deepen a students development and understanding of the self as a learner, knower, and citizen of the world.

The book is beautifully and graciously written--a style that helps convey the books invitation to readers: pay attention to each others strengths and build on them in order to help fulfill the full range of educational outcomes long given voice in college and university mission statements and strategic plans.

Patricia Owen-Smith is Professor of Psychology and Womens Studies at Oxford College of Emory University. She is the founder and director of Oxford Colleges Womens Studies and Service-Learning programs.

At a time when accelerated learning drives so much of what occurs in the classroom, . . . the author proposes to slow things down and to have students and teachers alike see the power and meaning in silent and slow reflection.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Historical Review
2. Contemplative Practices in Higher Education
3. Challenges and Replies to Contemplative Methods
4. Contemplative Research
5. The Contemplative Mind: A Vision of Higher Education for the 21st Century
Coda
References
Index