Mindful practice for social justice : a guide for educators and professional learning communities /
This book is designed to help you bring mindfulness and social justice to the forefront of your education practice, so you can work toward self-actualization and social transformation. Author Raquel Raios offers instructional practices, coaching strategies and implementation tools to help you activa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Eye on Education book.
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | This book is designed to help you bring mindfulness and social justice to the forefront of your education practice, so you can work toward self-actualization and social transformation. Author Raquel Raios offers instructional practices, coaching strategies and implementation tools to help you activate mind, body and spirit on your journey to making real changes toward equity in your school or classroom. What's Inside: Chapter 1 explains the importance of realizing one's powers and how power increases when we discover its purpose and utility in society. Chapter 2 introduces you to the three domains of Peak Learning Experience (Personal, Social and Transpersonal) that lead to the targeted practices of Authentic Presence, Freedom and Emergence and discusses how bias can limit our ability to see the truth in people and situations. Chapters 3-5 delve into each domain, offering strategies, activities, reflection questions and application to practice tools. Chapter 6 discusses the importance of building the right team and the need to changehow we recruit talent if we want to innovate our profession. With the powerful reflection tools and activities in this book, you and your teams will feel more equipped and supported on your path toward mindfulness, social justice and change in education. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780429199240 0429199244 9780429579165 0429579160 9780429583285 0429583281 9780429581380 0429581386 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2019). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Raquel Râios is an educator, learning designer and consultant. She is the author of the book Teacher Agency for Equity: A Framework for Conscientious Engagement (Routledge, 2017). |