"A Word for Nature": Environmental Education and Mindfulness in a Literature Course
Hosted by: Center for Sustainable Futures, Teachers College, Columbia University
Speaker: Netta Bar Yosef Paz
The presentation will share an interdisciplinary experiential environmental and contemplative course at Kibbutzim College of Education and a research conducted on this course.
Entitled “Nature and Me: Literature and Mindfulness in the Dessert”, the course is exceptionally co-taught by an Ecologist and a literary scholar, part of students’ teacher-training-program. The course includes two-day base camping and hiking in the Negev Desert and on-campus meetings in the Kibbutzim Center for Contemplative Pedagogy. Combining Field-Ecology, Literature and Mindfulness, the course suggests a unique experience of slowing down, creative familiarity with Literature, contemplation and dialogical culture – with oneself, with others, and with Nature. Additionally, I will share an on-going research we are conducting, aimed at exploring the effect of this unique course on the students’ perception of outdoor contemplative learning experience of literary texts within Natural Environment.
For more information and to register for this event, please click: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/events/info/a-word-for-nature-environmental-education-and-mindfulness-in-a-literature-course-11334529/
