Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education: Narrative, Aesthetic and the Dialogical Presence of Thomas Merton

ISBN-13: 9780367633943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str.

Giovanni Rossini

Opis

By foregrounding a first-person perspective, this text enacts and explores self-reflection as a mode of inquiry in educational research and highlights the centrality of the individual researcher in the construction of knowledge.

Spis treści

1. Narrative Beginnings: The Seeds of Inquiry - The Imperative of Story and the Aesthetical within: Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry 2. Meditations on Merton’s Paradox: Narrative, Aesthetics and the Emergence of the Wisdom Image 3. The Journey of the “Perpetual Researcher:” Of Emerging Questions on the Relation of Wisdom and Art 4. The Friendship of Texts: Beyond a Referential Relation with Texts onto the Dialogical in Inquiry 5. A Methodology of One: The Personal versus the Sociological in Inquiry - On the Paradoxical Character of Arts-Based Contemplative Methodology 6. Landscape Images as Teachers of Wisdom: A Prolegomenon for Classroom Practice 7. Looking onto Myself to See Others: Concluding Reflections on the Imperative of the Personal in Contemplative Inquiry