Overview
“Challenging, inspiring, beautifully written, and unusual, this book calls readers to find ways to link mind and heart -- thinking and feeling -- to transform teaching and learning in higher education. Laura Rendón has illustrated how one can unite one's deep beliefs, values, and feelings, with one's keen analytical and intellectual abilities...an important, thought-provoking, and unique addition to the literature on teaching, learning, and the academic life.”—The Review of Higher Education on the first edition This new and expanded edition of the acclaimed and successful book by nationally-recognized student advocate, activist scholar and contemplative educator, Laura I. Rendón, will surely find new audiences who are eager to create teaching and learning environments where the learner is fully present and engaged using the full capacities of mind, body and senses; and where the learning experience can be simultaneously subjective and objective, a view which challenges the privileged notion that only reason and objective modes of learning are valid. While the pedagogy can be employed with all students, Rendón provides support for faculty who work with low-income, first-generation, and racially-minoritized learners. Sentipensante Pedagogy benefits all students through holistically meeting their emotional needs and quest for knowledge, and simultaneously fostering their civic sense, critical consciousness, and community engagement. Rendón offers an inspirational and contemplative pedagogy that leverages student assets and addresses the rhythmic balance and interconnection between intellectual, social, emotional, and inner-life skill development. The book blends academic discussions about pedagogy and diverse world views as it inspires a new generation of faculty and staff to develop blueprints for democratic, decolonial teaching and learning environments.The sensing / thinking approach has been successfully adopted and adapted in courses and seminars across many academic disciplines, including STEM, in two- and four-year colleges institutions. Several colleges and universities have created centers around contemplative studies and pedagogy with applications extending to the K-12 education arena. As with adopting any new pedagogical approach, planning and thought needs to be given on how to integrate its reflective and creative elements with course content. This book offers inspiration and guidance for faculty who want to holistically address the needs, aspirations, and individual development of their students.
Full Product Details
Author: Laura I. Rendón ,
Norma Cantú
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd edition
Weight: 0.412kg
ISBN: 9781642675764
ISBN 10: 1642675768
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 25 June 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Challenging, inspiring, beautifully written, and unusual, this book calls readers to find ways to link mind and heart -- thinking and feeling -- to transform teaching and learning in higher education. Laura Rendon has illustrated how one can unite one's deep beliefs, values, and feelings, with one's keen analytical and intellectual abilities...an important, thought-provoking, and unique addition to the literature on teaching, learning, and the academic life. -The Review of Higher Education on the first edition
At the core of Sentipensante Pedagogy is a desire to make education work for everyone, to dismantle the constraints and the assemblages that inhibit learning and the development of the whole human being while also engaging in social justice and contemplative practices. The Sentipensante human being is a critical thinker who also engages in social actions. In Rendon's words, that person es una persona educada. But being such an educated person does not mean just learning facts, knowing dates and knowledge that is memorized or that can be assessed easily through tests. No. It is knowledge that goes beyond that to the core of being human and intensely curious, as well as whetting that appetite for knowledge. As any good Foreword to a book should, I now turn to urging that you read and ponder the ideas in this book. I summarize and point forward wishing a life for this gem of a book that does what it must, work that matters. Another Anzalduan idea that Rendon uses to close the book is urging readers to 'do work that matters, vale la pena. It is worth the pain.' Such a charge is also a call to join in transformative action. Sentipensante Pedagogy is nothing less than radical in the truest sense of the word, to pull from the roots and act. Whether you have read this book before or not, I recommend you read it with fresh eyes and with an open mind. It will blow you away! But it is not enough to read the words. A while back I learned that it doesn't much matter whether you change the world, what matters most is that you try. I urge you to try Sentipensante Pedagogy not just in your classrooms and social groups, but in your life. It is a sentiment I heard loud and clear in Rendon's comment: 'What keeps me going is the realization that I may not see everything that I wish to witness in my lifetime, but at least I will know that I played a part in creating the change I wish to see in the nation's educational system.' I urge you to read this book slowly, contemplating its message at least in three levels: personal, communal, and institutional. And then, go and do something about it. --From the Foreword by Norma E. Cantu, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas
"""At the core of Sentipensante Pedagogy is a desire to make education work for everyone, to dismantle the constraints and the assemblages that inhibit learning and the development of the whole human being while also engaging in social justice and contemplative practices. The Sentipensante human being is a critical thinker who also engages in social actions. In Rendón's words, that person es una persona educada. But being such an educated person does not mean just learning facts, knowing dates and knowledge that is memorized or that can be assessed easily through tests. No. It is knowledge that goes beyond that to the core of being human and intensely curious, as well as whetting that appetite for knowledge. As any good Foreword to a book should, I now turn to urging that you read and ponder the ideas in this book. I summarize and point forward wishing a life for this gem of a book that does what it must, work that matters. Another Anzaldúan idea that Rendón uses to close the book is urging readers to 'do work that matters, vale la pena. It is worth the pain.' Such a charge is also a call to join in transformative action. Sentipensante Pedagogy is nothing less than radical in the truest sense of the word, to pull from the roots and act. Whether you have read this book before or not, I recommend you read it with fresh eyes and with an open mind. It will blow you away! But it is not enough to read the words. A while back I learned that it doesn't much matter whether you change the world, what matters most is that you try. I urge you to try Sentipensante Pedagogy not just in your classrooms and social groups, but in your life. It is a sentiment I heard loud and clear in Rendón's comment: 'What keeps me going is the realization that I may not see everything that I wish to witness in my lifetime, but at least I will know that I played a part in creating the change I wish to see in the nation's educational system.' I urge you to read this book slowly, contemplating its message at least in three levels: personal, communal, and institutional. And then, go and do something about it."""
Author Information
Laura I. Rendón is Professor Emerita at the University of Texas-San Antonio. She is also an educational consultant and featured speaker at over 100 higher education institutions and conferences throughout the nation. Her presentations focus on topics such as student success, Latinx STEM students, and sensing/thinking deep learning experiences, as well as self-care and healing. Laura is a nationally-recognized student advocate, activist scholar and contemplative educator. She grew up in a low-income, single-parent household along the U.S. Mexico Border in Laredo, Texas where she learned to speak English in the first grade. Rendón is a passionate advocate for low-income, first-generation students who she feels have hopes and dreams but often do not know how to realize them especially without resources. She has held faculty and administrative appointments at a wide range of universities including the University of South Carolina, North Carolina State University, Arizona State University, California State University-Long Beach, and Iowa State University and the University of Texas-San Antonio.
