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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349350203321

Autore

Gordon Michael A

Titolo

Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy [[electronic resource] ] : Teacher as Healer / / by Michael A. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-23953-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages)

Disciplina

796.8154

Soggetti

Education—Philosophy

Teaching

Educational psychology

Education—Psychology

Buddhism

Philosophy and social sciences

Educational Philosophy

Teaching and Teacher Education

Educational Psychology

Philosophy of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 -- .

Sommario/riassunto

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 increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional learning and well-being and to address stress-



induced overwhelm due to increased pressures on the education system and its constituents. The chapters in this book explore the various ways, through the lens of this non-violent relational art of Aikido, that pedagogy is always something being practiced (on the level of psychological, somatic and emotional registers) and thus holding potential for transformation into being more relational, ecological-minded, and reflecting more ‘embodied attunement.’ Positioning education as a practice, one of self-discovery, the author argues that one can approach personal development as engaging in a spiritual process of integrating mind and body towards full presence of being and existence.