The Whole Person

Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina

Jane E. Dalton, Maureen P. Hall, Catherine E. Hoyser

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216247401
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning.Growing from ancient roots, lectio divina as a contemplative practice and part of contemplative pedagogy, aligns with many efforts in the 21st century to investigate how whole persons can be engaged in learning and how they can develop into their best human selves.Lectio divina, a four-step process of deep reading and viewing, is aligned with the tenets of holistic education; it is an evolving tapestry of embodied learning, creating spaces that empower teachers and students to be rooted in their own meaning making and to develop as whole persons. Lectio divina holds power to help people develop agency and voice in troubling times, all the while understanding themselves as human beings in a hyper-complex world. Using lectio divina in the classroom educates the whole person evoking the mind, spirit and body in a transformative learning experience.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 An Ancient Monastic Practice
• 2 Embodying Deep Reading
• 3 Image and Text
• 4 Lectio Divina and Story-to-Poem Conversion as Tools for Transformative Education
• 5 Reading the Word, the Self, the World
• 6 Writing about Yoga
• 7 Lectio Divina as Contemplative, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy in Social Justice Education Courses
• 8 Embodied Justice
• 9 The Restorative Power of Lectio Divina and the Arts for University Lecturers
• Appendix A
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors