32.077 - Contemplative Approaches to Transforming Education: Engagement in Awake-Dreaming, Spiritual Activism, De/colonial Perspectives, and Mindfulness

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Abstract
Issues of equity and social justice need to be considered within the context of the consequences on the human spirit. Thus, there needs to be a cultivation of mindfulness, contemplative practices, and discursive spaces where spirituality and well-being could be entertained in the same breath, instead of marginalizing the condition of the human spirit outside of human actions, experiences, and suffering. Thus, the scholars in this panel demonstrate how they engage with spirituality, contemplative practices, shadow work, arts-based approaches to research, and mindfulness in their teaching and research encompassing diverse cultural perspectives, including those of the global and indigenous postcolonial south. Critical to these approaches are innovative paths for research, discourse, dissemination of information, and transformative possibilities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Spirituality & Education

Chair

• Meaghan Cochrane, Kansas State University

Papers

• Time Carriers: Dreaming Reciprocal Relations Through Arts-Based Inquiry - Barbara A. Bickel, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

• Shadow Work, Healing, and Spiritual Activism: A Contemplative Mixed-Medium Arts-Based Study - Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

• Performing God: Creativity, Religion, and Youth Cultures - Anne M Harris, Monash University

• Reviewing an Arts-Based Contemplative Book Through Arts-Based Contemplative Practices - Pauline Sameshima, Lakehead University; Muga Miyakawa, Lakehead University

Discussant

• Robert H. London, California State University - San Bernardino