ABSTRACT

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational settings, but too often the relationship between art, education and spirituality is ignored. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, music, and writing, and forms such as writing-witnessing, freestyle rap, queer performative autoethnograph, and poetic imagination, this book develops a transformational educational paradigm. Its unique integration of spirituality in and through the arts addresses the contemplative needs of learners and educators in diverse educational and community settings.

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|3 pages

Lectio Divina

An Invitation to Readers

chapter 3|1 pages

Lectio One

chapter 4|21 pages

Writing Witness Consciousness

chapter 5|1 pages

Lectio Two

chapter 6|20 pages

To See, To Know, To Shape, To Show

The Path of an Indigenous Artist

chapter 7|1 pages

Lectio Three

chapter 8|21 pages

Companions With Mystery

Art, Spirit, and the Ecstatic

chapter 9|1 pages

Lectio Four

chapter 10|22 pages

Wrestling With the Angels of Ambiguity

Queer Paths in Contemplative Activism

chapter 11|1 pages

Lectio Five

chapter 12|12 pages

Woman Overboard

Pedagogical Moments of Performative Inquiry

chapter 13|1 pages

Lectio Six

chapter 15|1 pages

Lectio Seven

chapter 16|28 pages

Loving Language

A Poet's Vocation and Vision