scholarly journals Conceptual Grounding of Education as Human Formation – a Dialogue between Aspects of the Field of Education Itself and the Buddhist Tradition

Education ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
José Policarpo Junior ◽  
Ferdinand Röhr
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-240
Author(s):  
Eran Laish

This article focuses on the main contemplative principles of the ‘Heart Essence’ (sNying thig), a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that is characterized by a vision of non-duality and primordial wholeness. Due to this vision, which asserts an original reality that is not divided into perceiving subject and perceived object, the ‘Heart Essence’ advocates a contemplative practice that undermines the usual intuitions of temporality and enclosed selfhood. Hence, unlike the common principles of intentional praxis, such as deliberate concentration and gradual purification, the ‘Heart Essence’ affirms four contemplative principles of non-objectiveness, openness, spontaneity and singleness. As these principles transcend intentionality, temporality, and multiplicity, they are seen to directly disclose the nature of primordial awareness, in which the meanings of knowing and being are radically transformed. Therefore, the article will also consider the role of these non-dual contemplative principles in deeply changing our understanding of being and knowing alike.


Author(s):  
Ruth Gamble

Chapter 2 examines lineages in Tibetan society and the Buddhist tradition and explains how they influenced the development of Tibet’s reincarnation lineages. It begins by explaining the role of family lineages in thirteenth-century Tibet, describing how lineages helped form identities, created links between people, and served as a mechanism for inheritance. It then examines the three main forms of Buddhist lineages—monastic, Mahāyāna, and Tantric—and shows how these lineages were often intermingled with Tibetan family lineages and inheritance practices. The chapter ends by outlining how lineages associated with manifestation, particularly lineages associated with Avalokiteśvara, underpinned claims by Tibetans to be the manifestation of this bodhisattva and other celestial beings. This chapter also explains how the Karmapas’ reincarnation lineage, traditions, and institutions were presented not as a break from other lineages but as an extension of them, and it highlights the close relationship between lineages and specific places.


2021 ◽  
pp. 239448112199595
Author(s):  
Kalinga Tudor Silva

In the light of ongoing debates about secular state and religious right in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, this article examines the intellectual contribution of Dr B. R. Ambedkar towards sustaining democracy in South Asia. His critical contributions included non-violent mobilisation of Dalits and adivasis around their human rights, identity, citizenship and religious faith. Most importantly, he argued that democratic values of equality, liberty and fraternity are not only of European origin but also have roots in South Asia, particularly within the Buddhist tradition. The article reflects on Ambedkar’s politics, social philosophy and contribution to the formation of ‘religious left’ and the process of progressive democratic change via Navayana Buddhism.


2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (1090) ◽  
pp. 698-714
Author(s):  
John D. Love
Keyword(s):  

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiko Yusa

Dōgen’s gender-egalitarian stance on women to attain awakening in their zazen practice is well known. At the same time, a nagging suspicion lingers on among some scholars that he grew increasingly misogynistic in his old age. In this present study, which focuses on Dōgen’s sermons compiled in the Record of Eihei (Eihei kōroku), the Shōbōgenzō, and other writings related to women, we find that even after Dōgen moved to Eiheiji, his stance on women remained consistent. Not only did he readily respond to his female disciples’ requests to give special sermons in memory of their parents, but also positively saw women’s presence in the development of the Buddhist tradition. Through this study it also becomes clear that Dōgen came to embrace a more flexible view on filial piety in his later years, as he deepened his reflection on this matter—the sense of gratitude one feels for one’s parents is concomitant with nurturing one’s compassion. The aspect of compassion that sustained Dōgen’s life of teaching begins to loom large. It was his Chinese master Nyojō (Rujing) who emphasized compassion as the pillar of the zazen practice. Two sermons Dōgen delivered on the anniversary of his father’s death, moreover, have given the scholars new information concerning his parentage. The focus on the aspect of "feminine presence” in Dōgen inadvertently (or naturally?) leads to the heart of Dōgen’s own identity.


Author(s):  
John David Penniman

Ancient theories of intellectual formation depended upon corresponding theories of the power of material food to shape both body and mind. These theories show little investment in a stark distinction between literal and metaphoric nourishment. This introduction unpacks the dynamic relationship between literal and symbolic food within ancient discussions of human formation. It argues that, in the Greco-Roman world, food was understood to contain an essence that was transferred to the one being fed, transforming them from the inside out. Scholarship on ancient education has often overlooked this crucial emphasis on food and nurturance within the source material and that this has resulted in a false dichotomy between “literal food” and metaphorical references to “food for the soul.” Discussing the ambiguous Greek and Latin vocabulary for food and formation, and engaging post-structural linguistic theory, the introduction concludes that the proper education and formation of children was, throughout antiquity, dependent upon the material provision of food and the ways in which that provision was theorized and regulated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Fernando José Martins

 A Ocupação da Escola, uma prática que ocorre em atividades educacionais formais e não formais, evidenciada historicamente pela luta por escola por parte das camadas populares, com notoriedade na ação do MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra. O presente texto, objetiva demonstrar como essa prática de ocupação da escola, configura-se como uma categoria de análise do campo educacional em sua totalidade. Desse modo, busca-se responder se há elementos epistêmicos presentes na referida prática social, que sustentem a condição de categoria para a análise de fenômenos educacionais. As considerações presentes no artigo fazem parte de uma pesquisa mais ampla, que se constituiu de estudos bibliográficos e documentais, sobre os movimentos e as escolas envolvidas. Houve também campo empírico, duas escolas localizadas em assentamentos rurais, um na esfera estadual e outra municipal. No trato com as escolas, houve utilização de pesquisa participante e caderno de campo como parte da metodologia. Os resultados são expostos a partir das dimensões política, coletiva, sociocultural e pedagógica da ocupação da escola. Constata-se, que a ocupação da escola contém elementos que a sustentam enquanto uma pedagogia, uma categoria de análise da prática educativa, tanto do movimento social, quanto, em termos potenciais, no sistema educacional público brasileiro.Palavras-chave: Ocupação da Escola. Formação Humana. Auto-Gestão.School Occupation: a category under constructionAbstractThe school occupation, a practice which occurs in educational activities formal and non-formal, evidenced historically by the fight for school by working classes, with notoriety in the MST action - Landless Workers' Movement This text aims to demonstrate how this practice of occupying the school is configured as a category of analysis of the educational field in its entirety. In this way, we seek to answer whether there are epistemic elements present in the referred social practice, which support the condition of category for the analysis of educational phenomena. The considerations present in the article are part of a broader research, which consisted of bibliographic and documentary studies, on the movements and schools involved. There was also an empirical field, two schools located in rural settlements, one at the state and one at the municipal level. In dealing with schools, participatory research and field notebooks were used as part of the methodology. The results are exposed from the political, collective, socio-cultural and pedagogical dimensions of the school's occupation. It is noted that the school occupation contains elements that support them as pedagogy, a category of analysis of educational practice, both as a social movement, as, in potential terms, the Brazilian public school system.Keywords: School Occupation. Integral Human Formation. Self-Management.  Ocupación de la Escuela: una categoría en construcciónResumenLa ocupación de la escuela, una práctica que ocurre en actividades educativas formales y no formales, evidenciada históricamente por la lucha por la escuela por parte del estratos populares, con notoriedad en la acción del MST - Movimiento de Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra. Este texto tiene como objetivo demostrar cómo esta práctica de ocupar la escuela, establece como una categoría de análisis del campo educativo en su totalidad. Así, se busca responder si existen elementos epistémicos presentes en la práctica social referida, que apoyan la condición de categoría para el análisis de los fenómenos educativos. Las consideraciones presentes en el artículo son parte de una investigación más amplia, que consistió en estudios bibliográficos y documentales, sobre los movimientos y escuelas involucradas. También había un campo empírico, dos escuelas ubicadas en asentamientos rurales, una a nivel estatal y otra a nivel municipal. Al tratar con las escuelas, se utilizaron la investigación participativa y los cuadernos de campo como parte de la metodologia. Los resultados se exponen a partir de las dimensiones políticas, colectivas, socioculturales y pedagógicas de la ocupación escolar. Certifica-se que la ocupación de la escuela contiene elementos que la apoyan como pedagogía, una categoría de análisis de la práctica educativa, tanto como movimiento social como, en términos potenciales, en el sistema educativo público brasileño.Palabras clave: Ocupación de la Escuela. Formación Humana. Autogestión


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Talita Vidal Pereira ◽  
Lhays Marinho Ferreira

As an answer to the call from the Edtech and Policies of Human Formation dossier, the current article presents reflections resulting from the development of Master Degree research. Moreover, it has the aim of analyzing the senses given to the use of mobile devices by teacher’s professors in the classroom. It is an ethnographic study conducted in a teacher’s formation institution focused on the Normal High School Teaching. The institution is located in Rio de Janeiro City neighborhood. The study was performed based on the appropriation of post-structural and post-colonial inputs, and it addresses a concept of culture focused on the endless process of formulating meanings in order to analyze the cultural tensions deriving from the use of mobile devices during schooling processes, which are often underlined by a normativity frame motivated by teachers’ expectations about controlling the processes of signification. The text highlights arguments to support the understanding that the interactive and enhancing potential of mobile devices tends to be minimized within a context where school practices are supported by a schooling project marked by normative expectations and cultural standardization.


Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Jani Koskela ◽  
Pauli Siljander

This paper aims to clarify the meaning of the pedagogical concept of encounter by providing an overview of its use from the historical foundations of the concept in Otto Friedrich Bollnow’s (1903 to 1991) philosophy to contemporary phenomenological readings by Maxine Greene, Donald Vandenberg and Robyn Harrison. The outcome is a critical analysis and evaluation of the significance of the concept in educational contexts. The aims of the paper are as follows: a) to articulate the educational significance of the concept of encounter, and b) to clarify its relationship to the humanistic concept of formation (or unfolding; Bildung), in order to establish the tension between Bildung-theory and the existential theory of human formation. The paper claims that, for a more elaborated understanding of the human educative process, the tension between the processes of encounter and Bildung should be seen as the core tension behind the holistic view of becoming human. Also, c) for an analysis of the Anglo-American reception of the concept, a phenomenological view of the encounter as a transcendental aspect of a learning process will be made in order to gain a wider view of the concept.


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