Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching

Honoring Presence

Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel, Carl Leggo, Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel, Carl Leggo

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317801375
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Art

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational settings, but too often the relationship between art, education and spirituality is ignored. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, music, and writing, and forms such as writing-witnessing, freestyle rap, queer performative autoethnograph, and poetic imagination, this book develops a transformational educational paradigm. Its unique integration of spirituality in and through the arts addresses the contemplative needs of learners and educators in diverse educational and community settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Images
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Lectio Divina: An Invitation to Readers
• 3 Lectio One
• 4 Writing Witness Consciousness
• 5 Lectio Two
• 6 To See, To Know, To Shape, To Show: The Path of an Indigenous Artist
• 7 Lectio Three
• 8 Companions With Mystery: Art, Spirit, and the Ecstatic
• 9 Lectio Four
• 10 Wrestling With the Angels of Ambiguity: Queer Paths in Contemplative Activism
• 11 Lectio Five
• 12 Woman Overboard: Pedagogical Moments of Performative Inquiry
• 13 Lectio Six
• 14 Improvising Vulnerability Through Freestyle Rap Inquiry
• 15 Lectio Seven
• 16 Loving Language: A Poet's Vocation and Vision
• 17 Closing Lectio
• Contributors
• Photographers
• Index