Pedagogy of the Sangha in a Buddhist Learning Space

• In Event: Curriculum of the Soul: Poetics of the Unknown

Abstract

There exists a rich, yet uneven, body of critical literature with an increasingly nuanced understanding of Buddhism’s institutional and ideological landscape in the U.S. In some research, Buddhism has been used as a blanket concept to cover anything remotely or seemingly Buddhist in its (mis)applications for education, school and learning.
Through a pedagogy of the Sangha as an embodied curriculum, this study argued that Buddhist epistemologies can only be helpful in cultivating a paradigm shift in education, one that enhances the value of education as a public good, recognizes the validity of diverse cosmologies of knowing/being, and enables the collective well-being of all living beings.

Author

• Chau Bao Vu, Louisiana State University