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Shifting Identity Narratives: Mindfulness in Higher Education
Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
Studio M (Digital Humanities Center)
This paper presentation describes a critical visual inquiry into the ways in which undergraduate students describe the impact of mindfulness practices incorporated into sociology curriculum. Part of a larger study, participants engaged in a critical multimodal visual project to explore how mindfulness as a pedagogical tool impacted their learning around problematizing oppressive traditions. Evidence suggests that incorporating mindfulness helped develop students’ critical reflexive dispositions, allowing students to “learn to know themselves more fully” and “process their embodied experiences” (p. 37). Analysis of the critical multimodal visuals also show how mindfulness practices paired with complex discussions provide rich grounds for critical engagement that empowers students to engage in meaning making and construct “disruptive knowledge” about themselves, groups, and the way in which a society is organized around power (Kumashiro, 2000). Implications for integrating mindfulness practices in higher education and employing a critical multimodal approach (Cappello et al., 2019) are discussed. 
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Rachael Horn Langford

Lecturer and PhD candidate, San Diego State University
Rachael Horn Langford (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Joint PhD Program in Education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University.  She has been a sociology lecturer in higher education for 15 years; teaching a range of courses in theory, body, sexuality... Read More →
Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
Studio M (Digital Humanities Center)
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