Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy

Teacher as Healer
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-23952-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Drawing on the author’s lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional learning and well-being and to address stress-induced overwhelm due to increased pressures on the education system and its constituents. The chapters in this book explore the various ways, through the lens of this non-violent relational art of Aikido, that pedagogy is always something being practiced (on the level of psychological, somatic and emotional registers) and thus holding potential for transformation into being more relational, ecological-minded, and reflecting more ‘embodied attunement.’ Positioning education as a practice, one of self-discovery, the author argues that one can approach personal development as engaging in a spiritual process of integrating mind and body towards full presence of being and existence.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Michael A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung Ostasiatische Kampfkünste
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Practice as Transformative Wholeness2. Teacher as Healer: Animating the Ecological Self Through Holistic, Engaged Pedagogy3. Awakening to Wholeness: Aikado as an Embodied Praxis of Intersubjectivity4. Moto-Morphosis: The Gestalt of Aikido and Psychotherapy, and Motorcycling As 'Way'5. The Way of the Classroom: Aikado as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy6. Conclusion/Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Über Autor(innen)

Michael A. Gordon is a sessional instructor and award-winning scholar in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and a 6th Dan Aikido teacher with an autonomous organization also based in Canada. He writes and presents internationally on a range of issues related to ‘spiritual psychology.’ He is also owner and Clinical Director of Mindful You Therapy Center in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in adult/couples psychological counseling, trauma recovery (EMDR), psychospiritual development, and mind/body integration.