A Holistic Exploration of Mindfulness and Indigenous Knowledges

• In Event: 25.082 - Fairmont Royal York Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: 25.082-9 - Global Perspectives on Holistic Education

Abstract

This paper explores how a holistic approach to teaching and learning informed by diverse knowledges and histories can leverage education research in a ‘Post-Truth’ era by way of multimodal narratives. Acknowledging requests that Indigenous worldviews be incorporated into contemporary, post-modern, and post-truth curricula in Teacher Education (Battiste, 2002; 2013; British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2016; Cherubini, 2014; Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2015), this paper explores the similarities between Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledges. Following the lead of Four Arrows, Cajete and Lee (2010) and Yellowbird (2011) discussing similarities between Eastern contemplative practices and the connections in Indigenous Wisdom to the land, the heart and the mind.

Authors

• Karen Ragoonaden, The University of British Columbia

• Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Tina Fraser, University of Northern British Columbia

• Ross Hoffman, University of Northern British Columbia