The Mindful Classroom
Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice
Abstract
The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice helps teachers and discussion facilitators practice and teach mindfulness and movement techniques that can deeply enhance conversations about race, identity, and social justice, furthering social justice efforts at their most basic stage—person to person—from the face-to-face or online classroom to the community at large. Mindfulness and movement practices can help us prepare for and engage in difficult conversations, and the more conscious we become of our emotional, mental, and physical landscape, the more we are able to engage proactively rather than reactively, consciously rather than automatically. We become able to act (or not act), rather than react in situations with others. The topics of race and social justice are timely, and they are triggers. Productive engagement with these topics demands we remain mindful of how we may be triggered and how we may be triggering others; it demands we pay attention to ourselves at a fundamental level, and it demands that we grant such attention to others.
Schlagworte
Race and Identity Race in Education Mindful Conversations Mindful Education Deliberative pedagogy- 121–124 Afterword 121–124
- 125–130 Appendix A 125–130
- 131–140 Appendix B 131–140
- 141–144 Appendix C 141–144
- 145–146 Appendix D 145–146
- 147–148 Appendix E 147–148
- 149–154 Bibliography 149–154
- 155–158 Index 155–158
- 159–160 About the Author 159–160