Overview
- Offers a philosophical analysis of different types of violence and how cultivating mindfulness disrupts them
- Provides in-depth historical case studies illustrating mindfulness meditation in different contexts
- Presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mindfulness meditation as a form of education
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This book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence—one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action. It brings together the idiosyncratic but insightful musings on violence by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek with recent research on mindfulness and violence as a lens. Using this lens, it looks at two exemplary educators and how they taught mindfulness meditation as a way of resisting the types of violence they and their students faced: the Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh amidst the brutality of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975), and the African-American studies professor and cultural critic bell hooks in the face of systemic oppression in the United States of the 1980s.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Remy Y.S. Low is Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also the author of The Mind and Teachers in the Classroom: Exploring Definitions of Mindfulness (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning to Stop
Book Subtitle: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy
Authors: Remy Y.S. Low
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28722-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28721-3Published: 01 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28722-0Published: 31 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 117
Topics: Education, general, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Philosophy of Education