Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning

Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to:

• empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding;
• help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills;
• support students’ sense of connection to and compassion for others; and
• engender inquiries into students’ most profound questions.

Contemplative practices are used in just about every discipline—from physics to economics to history—and...