The Academy as Contemplative Practice

The Academy as Contemplative Practice

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Format: Virtual

Host: Graduate Mentoring Center, IU Bloomington

This program assembles a digital working group to address the question, “How do we create an IU that is not only bold, but also intentional, dynamic, adaptive, interdependent, and transformative?”

As a core text, participants will use Laura Rendón’s Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice, and Liberation.

Participants will explore:

  • Their role(s) in the academy (actual, imagined, and desired).
  • The connections between those roles, research, teaching, and service (past, present, and future).
  • The impact of racism and racialization on how these areas are engaged and connected.
  • How these connections assist or hinder them in creating holistic approaches that transform and make accessible teaching, research, and leadership at IU and for the communities we each serve.