The Mindful Classroom

Tru Leverette

doi:10.5771/9781793635419

Summary

The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice helps teachers and discussion facilitators practice and teach mindfulness and movement techniques that can deeply enhance conversations about race, identity, and social justice, furthering social justice efforts at their most basic stage—person to person—from the face-to-face or online classroom to the community at large. Mindfulness and movement practices can help us prepare for and engage in difficult conversations, and the more conscious we become of our emotional, mental, and physical landscape, the more we are able to engage proactively rather than reactively, consciously rather than automatically. We become able to act (or not act), rather than react in situations with others. The topics of race and social justice are timely, and they are triggers. Productive engagement with these topics demands we remain mindful of how we may be triggered and how we may be triggering others; it demands we pay attention to ourselves at a fundamental level, and it demands that we grant such attention to others.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3540-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3541-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 160
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. Note No access
4. 1. Engaging Identity No access
  2. Notes No access
1. The Politics of Identity No access
2. Mindful of Identity No access
3. Bringing Mindful Race Talk into the Classroom No access
4. Let’s Talk No access
5. Notes No access
1. Human Beings No access
2. 1. 1. To Practice No access
3. 1. Body Scan No access
  2. Accommodations No access
4. 1. Finding the Breath No access
  2. Belly Breathing No access
  3. Three-Part Breathing No access
  4. Alternatives No access
5. Constructive Conversation Applications No access
6. Human Beings Doing: Mindfulness in Everyday Life No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Role of Deliberative Pedagogy No access
2. The Classroom: Mindful Deliberative Pedagogy No access
3. Attention to the Classroom Space No access
4. Inviting and Welcoming No access
5. Responding to Resistance No access
6. Creating an Anti-racist Classroom No access
7. The Online Classroom No access
8. 1. Slow Down No access
  2. Allow Discomfort No access
  3. Listen Actively No access
  4. Be Polite No access
  5. Take Turns No access
  6. Don’t interrupt No access
  7. Speak “with” not “to” No access
  8. Remember You’re Talking with Someone No access
  9. Be Compassionate and Empathetic No access
  10. Be Courageous No access
  11. Question rather than Assume or Accuse No access
  12. Prioritize the Process No access
9. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. To Practice No access
  2. Accommodations No access
2. 1. 1. To Practice: No access
  2. Walking Talks No access
  3. Accommodations No access
  4. Online Alternative: Mindful Seeing No access
3. 1. 1. To Practice No access
4. Constructive Conversation Applications No access
5. Human Beings Doing: Mindfulness in Everyday Life No access
1. Mindful of Stories No access
2. How Will We Be? Literature and the Empathic Imagination No access
3. Untold Stories No access
4. From Page to Presence No access
1. 1. 1. To Practice No access
  2. Accommodations No access
2. 1. 1. To Practice No access
3. 1. 1. To Practice No access
4. Constructive Conversation Applications No access
5. Human Beings Doing: Mindfulness in Everyday Life No access
1. Mindful of Purpose No access
2. Mindful of Community No access
3. Mindful of Culture No access
4. Mindful of Relationships No access
5. Mindful of Mind No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. To Practice No access
  2. Community-Building Option No access
  3. Accommodations No access
2. 1. 1. To Practice No access
  2. Accommodations No access
3. 1. 1. To Practice No access
  2. Deepening Option No access
4. Constructive Conversation Applications No access
5. Human Beings Doing: Mindfulness in Everyday Life No access
1. 1. Learning Objectives No access
2. Mindful Syllabus No access
3. 1. Course Description No access
  2. Course Goals: No access
  3. Texts No access
  4. Course Requirements No access
4. 1. Lessons on Love No access
5. 1. Opening Questions No access
  2. Deeping Questions No access
  3. Reflecting Questions No access
6. Notes from the Classroom No access
7. 1. Instructions No access
  2. Digital Humanities Institute Showcase No access
8. Notes No access
1. Not Such a Black-and-White Issue: Race in America No access
2. Crepuscular No access
3. Who Am I? A Second Look No access
4. Reflection No access
5. Reflection No access
1. Love Like That No access
2. Service No access
3. Growth No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Note No access
Afterword No access Pages 121 - 124
1. Introduction No access
2. Navel Gazing No access
3. Self-Awareness to Issue Awareness No access
4. Challenging Racism and Other Forms of Oppression No access
Appendix B No access Pages 131 - 140
1. 1. Physiological No access
  2. Psychological No access
  3. Biochemical No access
2. 1. Physiological No access
  2. Psychological No access
3. 1. Physiological No access
  2. Psychological No access
Appendix D No access Pages 145 - 146
1. Facilitating Difficult Conversations and Civic Discourse No access
2. Holistic Teaching and Creativity No access
3. Mindfulness No access
4. Self-Care and Somatics No access
5. Social Justice No access
6. Yoga No access
Bibliography No access Pages 149 - 154
Index No access Pages 155 - 158
About the Author No access Pages 159 - 160