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1 online resource. |
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data file |
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Perspectives on Writing
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Open textbook library
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Perspectives on writing (Fort Collins, Colo.)
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Open Textbook Library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Front cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: FROM THE STICKY MAT TO THE CLASSROOM: TOWARD CONTEMPLATIVE WRITING PEDAGOGY; 1 THE WRITING YOGI: LESSONS FOREMBODIED CHANGE; INTERCHAPTER 1: USING "BODY BLOGS" TO EMBODY THE WRITER'S IMAGINATION; 2 PERSONAL PRESENCE, EMBODIED EMPIRICISM AND RESONANCE IN CONTEMPLATIVE WRITING; INTERCHAPTER 2: HABITS OF YOGA MINDS AND WRITING BODIES; 3 SITUATING FEELINGS IN CONTEMPLATIVE WRITING PEDAGOGY; INTERCHAPTER 3: THE WRITER'S BREATH; CONCLUSION: NAMASTE; NOTES; REFERENCES. |
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APPENDIX A: YOGA ASANA HANDOUTAPPENDIX B: YOGA PRANAYAMA HANDOUT; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Back cover. |
| Summary |
"In Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies, Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education within writing studies. She observes that, although we have "embodied" writing education in general by discussing the rhetorics of racialized, gendered, and disabled bodies, we have done substantially less to address the particular bodies that occupy our classrooms. She proposes that we turn to contemplative education practices that engages student bodies through fusing a traditional curriculum with contemplative practices including yoga, meditation, and the martial arts. Drawing strength from the recent "quiet revolution" (Zajonc) of contemplative pedagogy within postsecondary education and a legacy of field interest attributable to James Moffett, this project draws on case studies of first-year college writers to present contemplative pedagogy as a means of teaching students mindfulness of their writing and learning in ways that promote the academic, rhetorical work accomplished in first-year composition classes while at the same time remaining committed to a larger scope of a writer's physical and emotional well-being."--Open Text Library. |
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs |
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Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
| Language |
In English. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching. |
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Mind and body.
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Mind and body. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Yoga.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. |
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Yoga. |
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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Print version: Wenger, Christy I., 1982- Yoga minds, writing bodies. Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse ; Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2015] 9781602356603 (DLC) 2015006893 |
| ISBN |
9781602356627 (electronic book) |
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1602356629 (electronic book) |
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9781602356634 |
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1602356637 |
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9781602356641 |
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1602356645 |
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9781602356603 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9781602356610 |
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1602356610 |
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1602356602 |
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