Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators: Leslie Jeffrey: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Presence in the Online World

A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators

Presence in the Online World

A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators

Description

Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators is an edited collection that addresses the question of how we can bring the insights of contemplative pedagogy into the space of online learning. While the digital space can be one of distraction and disconnection, contemplative pedagogy offers time-honored practices that focus on cultivating mindful presence, awareness, transformative growth, and deep connection. These practices can help learners and educators tune into both their inner and outer worlds at a variety of levels: emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. The volume’s contributors, who come from diverse disciplines, offer their reflections on their experiences bringing the contemplative and the online together during the tumultuous pandemic years of emergency remote, blended, and online teaching. They provide both practical guidance in introducing contemplative practices in the online or blended classroom and insights into the meaning of “presence” and the possibilities for deep connection in an online world. Together, their contributions demonstrate how students and teachers can cultivate a holistic presence with each other and to their shared human conditions as they navigate the virtual classroom.

Introduction
1.Guided Practice - Connecting to Land: Pause, Breathe
Bill Cohen & Karen Ragoonaden
2.Being Whole in a Graduate Online Classroom: A Contemplative Perspective
Agnieszka Palalas
3.Cultivating Emotional Presence: Building and Nurturing an Online Community of Inquiry
Debra Dell
4.Vignette - Support for Contemplative Pedagogy Through Shared Teaching Presence
Martha Cleveland-Innes
5.Grounding Presence: Beholding the Vulnerability of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning
Karen Robert
6.Vignette - Presence and Silence in the Virtual Classroom
Margaret Anne Smith
7.Connection and Compassion: Presence Inside and Outside the Online Classroom
Leslie Ann Jeffrey
8.Guided Practice - Presence With/In/Of Nature: Sit Spot Practice and Forest Therapy Walks
Monika Stelzl
9.Fresh Eyes, Beginner’s Mind: Contemplative Photography and A Walking-Based Pedagogy of Embodied Presence When the World Goes Online
Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
10.Hard-wired for Presence in an Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educators
Charles Scott, Heesoon Bai, & Laurie Anderson
Epilogue
About the Authors

Product details

Published	Dec 15 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	160
ISBN	9781475870268
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	10 BW Illustrations
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic there has been continued growth in blended and online learning. Unfortunately, many students report a sense of isolation and anxiety in these types of courses and programs. This book provides timely strategies and advice for how to be “present” in the online environment. I highly recommend this book for anyone involved with online courses such as learners, educators, and administrators.

Norman Vaughan, Professor, Department of Education, Mount Royal University
This important volume offers much-needed guidance for those teaching in online environments. In the face of the many challenges these environments present, not least the potential for distraction and disconnection, the authors offer practical methods and theoretical insights to help both instructors and students cultivate more mindful, embodied, and heartfelt engagement with themselves, with others, with the content they are exploring, and with today's great existential challenges.

David Levy, Professor, Information School, University of Washington