Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Sharon Todd and Oren Ergas
1 On the Contemporary Applications of Mindfulness: Some Implications for Education 9
Terry Hyland
2 Contemplative Pedagogy and Mindfulness: Developing Creative Attention in an Age of Distraction 29
Aislinn O’Donnell
3 The Deeper Teachings of Mindfulness-Based ‘Interventions’ as a Reconstruction of ‘Education’ 47
Oren Ergas
4 Heidegger East and West: Philosophy as Educative Contemplation 68
David Lewin
5 Experiencing Change, Encountering the Unknown: An Education in ‘Negative Capability’ in Light of Buddhism and Levinas 90
Sharon Todd
6 Technologies of Self and the Cultivation of Virtues 107
Robert Hattam and Bernadette Baker
7 Intercultural Philosophy and the Nondual Wisdom of ‘Basic Goodness’: Implications for Contemplative and Transformative Education 129
Claudia Eppert, Daniel Vokey, Tram Truong Anh Nguyen, and Heesoon Bai
8 Reuniting Virtue and Knowledge 152
Tom Culham
9 Improvisation and Meditation in the Academy: Parallel Ordeals, Insights, and Openings 172
Edward Sarath
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