1st Edition

Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education Narrative, Aesthetic and the Dialogical Presence of Thomas Merton

By Giovanni Rossini Copyright 2021
208 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

By foregrounding a first-person perspective, this text enacts and explores self-reflection as a mode of inquiry in educational research and highlights the centrality of the individual researcher in the construction of knowledge. Engaging in particular with the work of Thomas Merton through a dialogical approach to his writings, Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in... Read more
1. Narrative Beginnings: The Seeds of Inquiry - The Imperative of Story and the Aesthetical within: Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry 2. Meditations on Merton’s Paradox: Narrative, Aesthetics and the Emergence of the Wisdom Image 3. The Journey of the “Perpetual Researcher:” Of Emerging Questions on the Relation of Wisdom and Art 4. The Friendship of Texts: Beyond a Referential Relation with Texts onto the Dialogical in Inquiry 5. A Methodology of One: The Personal versus the Sociological in Inquiry - On the Paradoxical Character of Arts-Based Contemplative Methodology 6. Landscape Images as Teachers of Wisdom: A Prolegomenon for Classroom Practice 7. Looking onto Myself to See Others: Concluding Reflections on the Imperative of the Personal in Contemplative Inquiry

Biography

Giovanni Rossini completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is a philosopher and independent scholar whose research interests span the fields of holistic and contemplative studies in education.