Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy Teacher as Healer
Drawing on the author’s lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindf
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Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy
Michael A. Gordon
Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy Teacher as Healer
Michael A. Gordon Simon Fraser University Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Foreword
How do we align with those deep currents that flow within and between us? How, in an age of such stunning threat and conflict, do we hold the spirit of mutual protection and preservation? We are steeped in a worldview of distinct subject and object, a materialist, positivist quest for absolute truth and control over the other: plant, planet, and sometimes person. As both product of and perpetuator of that worldview education centers on acquisition of external and largely abstract knowledge and instrumental skills. These are worthwhile expectations of schooling. The trouble—it is not hard to recognize—is that this worldview (and this knowledge), for all its might and value, leaves us distant from the earth, one another, and ourselves. From this detached stance, the world is disenchanted, to use Max Weber’s term. And we end up doing quite stunning violence to each of these realms. Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci anticipated the consequence of this, at the time, emerging view. He named it an abbreviators approach. He saw that in missing the embeddedness, embodiment, and interconnectedness of the thing we observe in favor of some abstract, abbreviated representation of it or merely its immed
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