The Mindful Classroom

Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice

Tru Leverette

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978751415
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What We Talk about When We Talk about Race: Encountering Individual Identity, Personal Agency, and Collective Struggle
• Mindfulness and Movement Practices
• Chapter 2: Who and How Will We Be?: Creating Constructive Conversations
• Mindfulness and Movement Practices
• Chapter 3: From Page to Presence: Using Literary Studies to Engage the World
• Mindfulness and Movement Practices
• Chapter 4: Engaging Community
• Mindfulness and Movement Practices
• Chapter 5: The Mindful Classroom: Seeing and Freeing the Whole Student
• Chapter 6: Student Voices: Reflections from Mindfully Engaged Students
• Where Are We Going? Communities to Come
• Afterword
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author