Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching Learning and Research

<p>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. </p><p>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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Showcases unique ways in which scholars from diverse disciplinary cultural and geographic contexts have engaged with meditative inquiry in their own fields. </li> <p> </p> <li> <p>Provides a space where African Asian Buddhist Indigenous and Western scholars engage with the idea of meditative inquiry from their own cultural philosophical and spiritual traditions perspectives and practices.</p> </li> <p> </p> <li>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. </li> </ul><ul> <p> </p> <li>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.</li> </ul><p>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. </p>