Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Classroom and Yoga Studio

Autor/in	Musial, Jennifer
Titel	Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Classroom and Yoga Studio
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 21 (2011) 3, S.212-228 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; College Instruction; Metacognition; Physical Activities; Mental Health; Non Western Civilization; Comparative Analysis; Ethics; Educational Environment; Feminism; World Views; Self Esteem; Teacher Student Relationship; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschullehre; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Psychohygiene; Ethik; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Feminismus; World view; Weltanschauung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Kanada
Abstract	This essay ruminates on the connective tissue between teaching undergraduates and teaching yogis/yoginis. In this essay, the author employs bell hooks's work, particularly her work on love, compassion, and "engaged pedagogy" from "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom," to explore the relationship between teaching environments: what does an anti-oppressive yoga pedagogy look like and what does a yogic, heart-centered university pedagogy look like? To negotiate these questions, the author employs the "chakra" system to organize her thoughts. "Chakra," a Sanskrit term, translates into "wheel" because, for energy to flow freely throughout the subtle body, the wheel must be turning at a reasonable pace. Just as one attempts to turn the energetic wheel to promote spiritual growth through yoga, one attends university classes to energize, expand, and challenge the intellect. The author begins the essay with the root "chakra" ("muladhara"), the desire for safety, and ends with the crown "chakra" ("sahasrara"), the necessity of contemplation, to show how the needs of university students and yoga practitioners are very similar; hence, there can be an integrated, nurturing, mutually constitutive feminist, anti-racist, heart-centered yogic pedagogy that benefits all. (Contains 17 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10