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# Contemplative Pedagogy

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> **Anti-Oppression Pedagogy teaches how to structurally analyze systems of oppression, while contemplative practices cultivate an embodied self-awareness.** Mindful anti-oppression pedagogy merges the two to cultivate an embodied social justice. This website offers a collection of contemplative practices that have been used in social justice classrooms.&#x20;

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> Professor [Laura Rendón](http://education.utsa.edu/faculty/profile/laura.rendon@utsa.edu)’s book, [*Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice, and Liberation*](http://www.amazon.com/Sentipensante-Sensing-Thinking-Pedagogy-Liberation/dp/1579229840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\&qid=1437840804\&sr=8-1\&keywords=sentipensante) *(Stylus Publishing 2014)*, offers important insights into integrating contemplative practice into social justice courses.  Sentipensante pedagogy, according to Dr. Rendón, works with three goals:

1\.     “ $$a = b$$ Disrupt and transform entrenched beliefs…about teaching and wholeness…that act against wholeness and appreciation of truth in all forms” (135).

2\.     Cultivate “*personas educadas*, well-rounded individuals who possess knowledge and wisdom” (136).

3\.     “Instill learners with a commitment to sustain life” (136).


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