Transforming Learning and Teaching: Heuristics for Educative and Responsible Practices(73 Bold Visions in Educational Research)

This book consists of 19 chapters on heuristics written by 21 diverse researchers. Heuristics are reflexive tools, designed to heighten awareness of actions and thereby afford reflection and other contemplative activities that can catalyze desired changes. The 33 heuristics provided in the book have been produced, revised, and adapted in more than two decades of scholarship. Six key foci are addressed in Transforming Learning and Teaching: Heuristics for Educative and Responsible Practices with respect to heuristics: teaching and learning, learning to teach, emotions, wellness, contemplative activities, and harmony. The book is an ideal resource for researchers in education and the social sciences, and an excellent text for graduate level courses in which research, professional development and transformative change are goals.

Table of Contents:
Preface: Why This Book and Why Should You Read It? List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Using Heuristics to Enhance the Quality of Cultural Production  Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos 2 Coteaching: Then, Now, and in Future  Kenneth Tobin, Konstantinos Alexakos and Malgorzata Powietrzynska 3 Expanding the Horizons of Cogenerative Dialogue  Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos 4 Responsive Math Teaching Heuristic: An Intervention for Supporting the Cognitive and Emotional Needs of Preservice Teachers  Shequana Wright-Chung 5 Developing Heuristics with Students: A Heuristic for Student Teacher Interaction  Katelin Corbett 6 Heuristic as a Tool for Conducting Reflexive Educational Research: Bring the Research to Life!  Anna Malyukova 7 Minding Our Emotions through Heuristics  JoAnn Rintel Abreu 8 Feeling Derivatives? A Visual Arts-Based Student Self-Reflection  Luis A. Zambrano 9 Using Heuristics to Sow the Seeds of Mindfulness in Teacher Education  Malgorzata Powietrzynska 10 Illuminating the Relational Nature of Teaching | Learning Using Heuristic Methodology  Malgorzata Powietrzynska and Linda Noble 11 Student Conduct Administrators and Emotions: Managing Emotions by Developing a Self-Care Practice with Heuristics  Corie A. McCallum 12 Mindfulness in Daily Life Heuristic for Cultivating an Equanimous Mind  Yau Yan Wong and Chatree Faikhamta 13 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative Dialogue  Corinna Brathwaite 14 Embracing Polysemia and Polyphonia through EDTPA  Amy Goods and Nicholas Catino 15 Rationale for Designing a Life Purposes Heuristic Informed by Dignity Therapy for Community College Students  Manny Lopez 16 Tying Knots and Weaving Ends: Toward a Holistic Paradigm of Arts-Based Research  Mariatere Tapias 17 Toward a Theory of Heuristics  Wolff-Michael Roth 18 Conscious Spaces and Self: Boundaries, Core, Me Not Me, and Being in the Heart  Konstantinos Alexakos 19 Heuristics for Contemplative Activities  Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos Index

About the Author :
Kenneth Tobin, Ed.D. (1980), University of Georgia, is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Tobin taught high school science for a decade, and was a professor for 45 years. His research includes contemplative practices, wellness and wellbeing. Konstantinos Alexakos, Ph.D. (2005), Columbia University, is Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Research foci include teaching and learning, emotions, wellness and critical social issues with the goals of improving personal and global wellbeing, sustainability and education.