Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness

Priorities for Research and Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52732-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Bold Visions in Educational Research

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: Priorities for Research and Education continues ongoing studies exploring relationships between expressed emotions, physiological changes in breathing patterns, blood circulation and wellness, and use of interventions to live with chronic disease and, when possible, restore healthy functioning of the body. Unique aspects of the book's chapters include complementary approaches and practices for self-care, caring for others, and harmonizing universal energy. To ameliorate emotions and enhance wellness a variety of healing and contemplative practices are discussed, including breathing meditation and mindfulness in everyday activities. In so doing, authors address a diverse set of critical issues, including education, resilience, vulnerability, racism, misogyny, bigotry, and poverty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tobin, Kenneth

Alexakos, Konstantinos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Setting the Stage: Our Research on Emotion and Wellness

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Attaining and Sustaining Wellness

Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos

2 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative Dialogue

Corinna Brathwaite

3 Ameliorating Disillusions: Navigating Stress Emotions in Teacher Education

Shequana Wright-Chung

4 Living through a Pandemic: Exploring Emotions and Experiences of Living in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic through Narratives

Anna Malyukova, Fatima Alexander, Mary Bullen, Maria Cadme, Xiao Ling He, Sara E. Johnson, Jenna Sclafani, Suellen Taragano and Tara Toye

5 Reflections from an In(discreet) Body

Carolyne Ali-Khan

6 Restoring the Balance: The Sacred Union of Our Divine Feminine and Masculine Energies

Sister Tibebwa

7 Generating Perspectives of Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case for IronMaori

Tabitha McKenzie, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall and Grant Zouch

8 An Afro-Caribbean Science Teacher’s Quest for Healing: A Wellness Project

Theila Smith

9 Transforming African American Cultural Identity through Dance as a Wellness Practice: An Autoethnographic Movement of Self-Recovery

Francie Johnson

10 Personal and Environmental Wellness

Eleanor A. Miele

11 Living with Depression

Piyanate Chuychai

12 Reversing Osteoporosis: Lessons in Alignment

Hema Daswani

13 Learning from Alternative Methods of Care and Wellbeing of a Loved One: Exploring the Potential of Jin Shin Jyutsu

Ernest Andre Poole

14 “How Are You Today?” A Narrative, Introspective Look at the Relationship of Knowing and Feeling: An (Inter)Personal Narrative

Ernest Andre Poole

15 Taking Agency; Walking Away and Coming Home: How COVID-19 Changed My Relationship to My Job, My Emotional Wellbeing and Exploring Alternatives to Food as a Coping Mechanism

Corie A. McCallum

16 Wellness during Illness: Improving the Quality of Life through Health Literacy in Mexican Children and Adolescents with Chronic Kidney Disease

Beatríz Verónica Panduro Espinoza and S. Lizette Ramos de Robles

17 Practicing Mindful Living as a Professional Learning Community in a Thai Elementary School

Yau Yan Wong

18 Total Involvement with Life: Being-in-the-Flow

Wolff-Michael Roth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Tobin, EdD (University of Georgia, 1980), is Presidential Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Tobin taught high school science for a decade, and was a professor for 45 years. His research includes contemplative practices, wellness, wellbeing, and reflexive living.

Konstantinos Alexakos, PhD (Columbia University, 2005), is Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Research foci include teaching and learning, emotions, wellness and critical social issues with the goals of improving personal and global wellbeing, sustainability and education.