Engaging with meditative inquiry in teaching, learning, and research : realizing transformative potentials in diverse contexts / edited by Ashwani Kumar ; foreword: William F. Pinar ; illustrations: Adam Garry Podolski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / William F. Pinar -- My journey with meditative inquiry : teaching, learning, and researching in law and dispute resolution / Nayha Acharya -- Ruminations on dialogue as a form of meditative inquiry / Vikas Baniwal -- Exploring the connections between Africentric principles and meditative inquiry : understanding their significance for teaching and learning in adult education contexts / Susan Brigham -- Martial arts as meditative inquiry / Shawn Bullock -- On the significance of meditative inquiry in teaching, learning, and living : a dialogue between two teachers / Michael Cosgrove and Shannon Power -- Mindset and meditative inquiry / Adrian Downey -- Arts & letters : meditative inquiry as invitation / Christina Flemming -- Meditative inquiry and critical discourse analysis : a hybrid approach for doing educational research / Mohamed Kharbach -- Meditative inquiry as medium for learning : constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing love of self, learning, and life / Margaret Macintyre Latta -- Meditative inquiry in dialogue with Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist praxis / Christopher McCaw and John Quay -- Synergies between indigenous ways of knowing and meditative inquiry / Diane Obed -- The dialogic and vulnerable nature of learning : perspectives from positive psychology and meditative inquiry / Krista Ritchie and Paul Stemmler -- Meditative inquiry and mindfulness / David Sable -- A poetic response to Ashwani Kumar's book, Curriculum as meditative inquiry / Susan Walsh -- Structure, consciousness, and agency : moving forward through meditative inquiry / Debra Wells-Hopey -- Explorations of trauma through meditative inquiry / Rajean Willis and Laura Leslie -- Epilogue / Ashwani Kumar.

"This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar's work on meditative inquiry - a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living - in diverse educational contexts. Aspiring to awaken awareness, intelligence, compassion, collaboration, and aesthetic sensibility among students and their teachers through self-reflection, critique, dialogue, and creative exploration, this volume: Showcases unique ways in which scholars from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and geographical contexts have engaged with meditative inquiry in their own fields. Highlights the contributions from Indigenous, African, Asian, and Buddhist scholars who have engaged with the idea of meditative inquiry from their own cultural and spiritual traditions, perspectives, and practices. Explores a variety of themes in relation to meditative inquiry including arts-based research, poetic inquiry, Africentricity, Indigenous thinking, martial arts, positive psychology, trauma, dispute resolution, and critical discourse analysis. Offers insights into how the principles of meditative inquiry can be incorporated in classrooms and, thereby, contributes to the growing interest in mindfulness, meditation, and other holistic approaches in schools and academia. The diverse and rich contributions contained in this volume offer valuable perspectives and practices for scholars, students, and educators interested in exploring and adopting the principles of meditative inquiry in their specific fields and contexts"-- Provided by publisher.