Interconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy

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dc.contributor.advisorIppolito, John
dc.contributor.authorBliss, Stacey Lynette
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T18:53:28Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T18:53:28Z
dc.date.copyright2019-07
dc.date.issued2019-11-22
dc.date.updated2019-11-22T18:53:27Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a qualitative ethnographic study exploring embodied mindfulness practices in relation to self and community. I begin by recasting mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2013; Langer, 1989) as literacy (Soloway, 2015) so as to bridge mindfulness studies with contemporary socially situated understandings of literacy (Cazden et al., 1996; Gee, 2015; Street, 1984). My aim is to redress personalized and individualized notions of mindfulness by reclaiming an ethical framework of mindfulness located in the social sphere. Through observations and interviews in self-reflexive ethnographic research (Hammersley & Atkinson, 1995) with educators of meditation and yoga in Chile, Canada and India, I explore how mindfulness-based practices are transformational in relationships with self and others. As conceptual frameworks, I turn to the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas (1969, 1989) and Thich Nhat Hanh (1993) to query the connection and interconnection between the personal and the social. Based on analysis of the data, I propose a spatial model of literacy.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36767
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSociology of education
dc.subject.keywordsethnography
dc.subject.keywordsethnographic research
dc.subject.keywordscross-cultural ethnography
dc.subject.keywordssocially situated literacy
dc.subject.keywordsspatial literacy
dc.subject.keywordspost-spatial literacy
dc.subject.keywordsmindfulness as literacy
dc.subject.keywordsmindfulness-based practices
dc.subject.keywordsmeditation
dc.subject.keywordsyoga
dc.subject.keywordsmindfulness as ethics
dc.subject.keywordsLevinas
dc.subject.keywordsalterity
dc.subject.keywordsThich Nhat Hanh
dc.subject.keywordsinter-being
dc.titleInterconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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