Look before You Leap: Reconsidering Contemplative Pedagogy

Autor/in	Fisher, Kathleen M.
Titel	Look before You Leap: Reconsidering Contemplative Pedagogy
Quelle	In: Teaching Theology & Religion, 20 (2017) 1, S.4-21 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-4868
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Reflection; Attention; Listening; Undergraduate Students; Cognitive Development; Thinking Skills; Empathy; Epistemology; Spiritual Development; Emotional Development; Religion Studies; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aufmerksamkeit; Hörvorgang; Zuhören; Kognitive Entwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Empathie; Erkenntnistheorie; Gefühlsbildung; Religionswissenschaft; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	This paper presents a critique of a set of teaching strategies known as "contemplative pedagogy." Using practices such as meditation, attentive listening, and reflective reading, contemplative inquiry focuses on direct first-person experience as an essential means of knowing that has historically been overshadowed and dismissed by an emphasis on analytical reasoning. In this essay, I examine four problematic claims that appear frequently in descriptions of contemplative pedagogy: (1) undergraduate students have a kind of spiritual hunger; (2) pedagogies focused on cognitive skills teach students only what, not how, to think; (3) self-knowledge fosters empathy; and (4) education needs a new epistemology centered on spiritual and emotional, rather than intellectual, experience. I argue that these claims underestimate the diversity of undergraduate students, the complexity of what it means to think and know, the capacity for self-knowledge to become self-absorption, and the dangers of transgressing the boundaries between intellectual, psychological, and religious experiences. [See as well "Response to Kathleen Fisher's "Look Before You Leap," by Andrew O. Fort and Louis Komjathy, published in this issue of the journal.] (As Provided).
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