Mindful Practice for Social Justice: A Guide for Educators and Professional Learning Communities

By: Raquel Ríos

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Synopsis: 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 Ríos 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 change how 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780429581380
Related ISBNs:: 9780429199240, 9780367189259, 9780367189259, 9780367189242, 9780367189242
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/09/19
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.