The Mindful Studio
Cultivating Creativity and Well-Being in the Art Classroom
Jane E. Dalton
On their own, expressive arts and mindfulness are potent tools that
strengthen learning in the classroom and promote well-being; used together they engage the whole student, providing the tools needed to navigate inner and outer lives through creative expression. This practical and accessible resource suggests ways to blend these approaches meaningfully into classroom practice. Explore mindful experiences for embodied learning, developing a mind-body connection to help students recognize and reflect on senses, intuition, and tactile experiences.The Mindful Studio offers support to strengthen creativity, self-expression, and reflection in the artroom and develop or expand a personal mindfulness practice.
The Whole Person
Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina
Jane E. Dalton, Maureen P. Hall and Catherine E. Hoyser
The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning. Growing from ancient roots, lectio and visio divina as a contemplative practice aligns with many efforts in the 21st century to investigate how whole persons can be engaged in learning and how they can develop into their best human selves. Lectio divina, a four-step process of deep reading and viewing, is an evolving tapestry of embodied learning, creating spaces that empower teachers and students to be rooted in their own meaning making and to develop as whole persons.
Cultivating a Culture of Learning
Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Edited by Kathryn Byrnes: Jane E. Dalton and Elizabeth Hope Dorman
Cultivating a Culture of Learning: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education illustrates portraits of practice from a variety of teacher education programs, bringing together a rich collection of voices from diverse settings. Authors share their first-hand experience of cultivating a culture of learning as teacher educators and employing contemplative practices in their work with educators. Contemplative practices, pedagogy, and research are analyzed as essential components of cultivating cultures of learning in classrooms. The authors in this book advocate and express the importance of creating spaces where the inner life and qualities such as intuition, creativity, silence, and heart-centered learning are valued and work in partnership with cognitive and rational ways of knowing and being in the world.
Impacting Teaching and Learning
Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Edited by Elizabeth Hope Dorman; Kathryn Byrnes and Jane E. Dalton
Impacting Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education, demonstrates research-based practices from a variety of teacher education programs, bringing together a rich collection of voices from diverse settings. All of the authors in this book share their research investigating the varied ways learners respond to contemplative practices, and the skills and dispositions that contemplative practices cultivate in preservice teachers. Authors explore challenges faced institutionally, with students, and personnel.
The Teaching Self
Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Edited by: Jane E. Dalton; Kathyrn Byrnes and Elizabeth Hope Dorman
In The Teaching Self, a rich collection of voices from diverse settings illustrates the ways in which first-person experiences with contemplative practices lay a foundation for contemplative pedagogy in teacher education. Contemplative practice depends on cultivating an understanding of oneself, as well as one’s relationship and interdependence of others and the world, and it is this precept that guides the focus of these portraits of practice. All of the authors in this book share first-hand experiences with contemplative practices that honor, support, and deepen awareness of the teaching self by exploring the journey of identifying as a contemplative educator.
The Compassionate Classroom:
Lessons that Nurture Empathy and Wisdom
Jane E. Dalton and Lyn Fairchild
This inspiring guidebook supports teachers seeking to provide a nurturing and creative classroom environment for middle school and high school students. Lessons supply instruction for creating a community of empathy, reverence, self-awareness, and mindfulness. Each entry features a concise lesson plan ready for implementation, as well as a brief summary of the interfaith and secular philosophies that underpin the lesson. Educators are assisted in building connections among diverse populations, cultivating self-awareness, and rewarding reflective thinking. Handouts and sample writings offer inspirational models for students to explore identity and spirituality.
Daniel Rechtschaffen
Author of The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students
In cultivating a culture of learning, the contributors succeed in the difficult task of balancing scholarly rigor with transformative wisdom. They point beautifully to the power of contemplative practices in awakening of the best qualities educators need to become masters in the art of teaching. With this article collection, readers can learn a new paradigm for teaching with greater awareness, compassion, and scale.
Sandra Finney
Author of Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts and The Way of the Teacher
Jane Dalton, Kathryn Byrnes, and Elizabeth Dorman have managed to achieve throughout their three volume added collection ideas both practical and inspiring. They offer the reader, great scope and depth and describing contemplative practices from a variety of settings and perspectives. Throughout the chapters, the contributors provide the tools for self transformation through experiences that move the soul, awaken the heart, and strengthen pedagogical thinking.
Karen Ragoonaden
Author of Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being
Aligned with the principles of holistic education, The Whole Person, provides readers with a time and space to consider transformative practices in contemporary educational curricular. Positioned as a pedagogical teaching of the whole person, the author is explore the multiple facets of embody learning through Universal and collective values of wisdom, compassion, loving kindness, joy, beauty, and peacefulness.