Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry

by A. Kumar

Overview

2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Review

Kumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide transformative educational experiences to teachers and their students?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137315816
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Series:	Curriculum Studies Worldwide
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ashwani Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Meenakshi Thapan Introduction 1. Krishnamurti, Macdonald, and Myself 2. On the Nature of Consciousness 3. On the Nature of Education 4. On the Nature of Meditative Inquiry 5. On the Nature of Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry Conclusion Afterword; Karen Meyer

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"In an age of incessant demands for standards and assessment, Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry offers a hopeful vision for education that is transnational and transformational, imaginative and insightful, poetic and philosophical. Ashwani Kumar offers us a rare gift of dynamic wisdom that we urgently need in our contemporary and cosmopolitan world." - Carl Leggo, poet and Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

"In schools, as in most of contemporary North American society, 'slow' has become a four-letter word and space for deep thought almost non-existent. Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry challenges educators, administrators, and parents to re-imagine education as a process and system based on the cultivation of heightened awareness and deep inner thought. Our future might very well depend on attention to this book." - Ardra L. Cole, Associate Vice-President, Academic and Research, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

Editorial Reviews

This book should be on the mandatory reading list of every teachertraining programme, every education psychology degree course, and for all secondary-school sociology classes. … I would recommend this book to all who are serious about the learning process and are concerned with why most education institutions generally are failing to bring out integrated, sane, healthy student graduates capable of leading meaningful lives and caring for and loving others and the Earth.” (Mark Lee, Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools, Issue 20, January, 2016)

"A challenging book in at least three admirable ways . . . At the heart of the works of both Krishnamurti and Macdonald, Kumar sees a way of thinking that is different to the thinking that characterizes much of contemporary educational discourse." - Teachers College Record

"This book explores the roles of consciousness, education and meditative inquiry in creating a new type of learning environment where the individual's consciousness is privileged over the structure of institutions." - Education Review

"In this exceptionally well-written and courageous book, Kumar makes the case for moving beyond the dominant yet simplistic view of curriculum as information transmission . . . It is hard to imagine a more lucid treatment." - Choice

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