Philosophy East / West : Exploring Intersections Between Educational and Contemplative Practices.

Intro -- Series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- 1 On the Contemporary Applications of Mindfulness: Some Implications for Education -- THE CONCEPT OF MINDFULNESS -- MINDFULNESS, MORALITY AND FREEDOM -- SECULARISM, SPIRITUALITY AND MINDFULNESS -- MINDFULNESS, LEARNING AND EDUCATION: DEVELOPMENTS AND ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- 2 Contemplative Pedagogy and Mindfulness: Developing Creative Attention in an Age of Distraction -- INTRODUCTION: IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH MINDFULNESS? -- DIAGNOSIS: THE COLLAPSE OF ATTENTION -- AN APPARATUS OF CAPTURE? -- RETURNING TO THE ETHICAL ROOTS OF MINDFULNESS -- CREATING LITTLE SPACES IN EVERYDAY LIFE: ATTENTION AND EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Deeper Teachings of Mindfulness-Based 'Interventions' as a Reconstruction of 'Education' -- INTRODUCTION -- I TWO JUSTIFICATORY PATHS UNDERGIRDING A CONTEMPLATIVE TURN IN EDUCATION -- II ATTENTION: THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE, WISDOM-TRADITIONS AND EDUCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Heidegger East and West: Philosophy as Educative Contemplation -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERCOMING THE WEST -- THINKING AS RELEASEMENT -- HEIDEGGER'S WAY -- THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE WILFUL SELF -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Experiencing Change, Encountering the Unknown: An Education in 'Negative Capability' in Light of Buddhism and Levinas -- PHILOSOPHY, MEDITATION AND DHAMMA PRACTICE: DUKKHA, ANICCA, ANATTA -- VIPASSANA PRACTICE AND THE ENCOUNTER -- NONSELF, ENCOUNTER AND THE ETHICS OF ALTERITY -- AN EDUCATION IN NEGATIVE CAPABILITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 Technologies of Self and the Cultivation of Virtues -- I INTRODUCTION -- II FOUCAULT AND THE SPATIALISATION OF SPIRITUALITY-PHILOSOPHY-SCIENCE -- III THE CULTIVATION OF VIRTUE: BUDDHIST TRACES.

IV REAPPROACHING DOCTORAL EDUCATION: PROBLEMATISING TRANSFORMATIONAL PRACTICES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO A CONTEMPLATIVE TURN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Intercultural Philosophy and the Nondual Wisdom of 'Basic Goodness': Implications for Contemplative and Transformative Education -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NONDUAL GROUND OF BASIC GOODNESS -- SHAMBHALA TEACHINGS ON WARRIORSHIP: LEARNING TO ABIDE IN BASIC GOODNESS -- THE FRUITION OF SACRED WARRIORSHIP: TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN BASIC GOODNESS -- FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR CONTEMPLATIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION -- CONCLUSION: INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY AND PRACTICE OF LIFE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 Reuniting Virtue and Knowledge -- WHY REUNITE VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE? -- THE ANCIENT GREEK PERSPECTIVE ON VIRTUE -- CARE OF THE SOUL -- CARE OF THE SOUL AND KNOWLEDGE -- DAOISM: DAO AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO VIRTUE 德 -- DAOIST CULTIVATION OF VIRTUE -- DAOIST CULTIVATION OF VIRTUE AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- DAOIST CULTIVATION OF VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE -- VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE: SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE -- GREEK AND DAOIST CONCEPTIONS OF CULTIVATION OF VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE -- INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 9 Improvisation and Meditation in the Academy: Parallel Ordeals, Insights, and Openings -- MY STORY -- TALES OF TWO EPISTEMOLOGIES -- HARNESSING THE FRUITS OF SYSTEMATIC IMPROVISATION AND MEDITATION APPROACHES -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN THE CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES MOVEMENT -- NEW PARADIGMS OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE GROWTH -- CLOSING THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index -- EULA.

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