Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy Teacher as Healer /

• Main Author: Gordon, Michael A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Teaching.; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Buddhism.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational Philosophy.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Psychology.; Philosophy of Education.

Drawing on the author's lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingl...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Practice as Transformative Wholeness
• 2. Teacher as Healer: Animating the Ecological Self Through Holistic, Engaged Pedagogy
• 3. Awakening to Wholeness: Aikado as an Embodied Praxis of Intersubjectivity
• 4. Moto-Morphosis: The Gestalt of Aikido and Psychotherapy, and Motorcycling As 'Way'
• 5. The Way of the Classroom: Aikado as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy
• 6. Conclusion/Looking Back, Looking Ahead
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