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2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Review Kumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide transformative educational experiences to teachers and their students?

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A challenging book in at least three admirable ways ... At the heart of the works of both Krishnamurti and Macdonald, Kumar sees a way of thinking that is different to the thinking that characterizes much of contemporary educational discourse. - Teachers College Record This book explores the roles of consciousness, education and meditative inquiry in creating a new type of learning environment where the individual's consciousness is privileged over the structure of institutions. - Education Review In this exceptionally well-written and courageous book, Kumar makes the case for moving beyond the dominant yet simplistic view of curriculum as information transmission ... It is hard to imagine a more lucid treatment. - Choice In an age of incessant demands for standards and assessment, Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry offers a hopeful vision for education that is transnational and transformational, imaginative and insightful, poetic and philosophical. Ashwani Kumar offers us a rare gift of dynamic wisdom that we urgently need in our contemporary and cosmopolitan world. - Carl Leggo, poet and Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada In schools, as in most of contemporary North American society, 'slow' has become a four-letter word and space for deep thought almost non-existent. Curriculum as Meditative Inquiry challenges educators, administrators, and parents to re-imagine education as a process and system based on the cultivation of heightened awareness and deep inner thought. Our future might very well depend on attention to this book. - Ardra L. Cole, Associate Vice-President, Academic and Research, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

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Ashwani Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada.

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