Webinars

Sentipensante Pedagogy and Contemplative Practice

with Laura Rendón, Professor of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies, University of Texas San Antonio
and Vijay Kanagala, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Texas San Antonio
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Free and open to all

Sentipensante pedagogy offers a transformative vision of education that emphasizes the harmonic, complementary relationship between the sentir of intuition and the pensar of intellect and scholarship; between teaching and learning; between formal knowledge and wisdom; and between Western and non-Western ways of knowing.

Laura I. Rendón earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a M.A. in counseling and guidance and psychology from Texas A&M University-Kingsville (1975). She earned a B.A. in English and journalism from the University of Houston (1970) and holds an associate of arts degree from San Antonio College. Rendón also attended Laredo Community College.

Rendón is the author of Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation. She is also is co-editor of Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color, Educating a New Majority, and Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education ASHE Reader. Her scholarly work on access and student success has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the PBS documentary, The College Track. She has received numerous awards including the ASHE Distinguished Service Award and the NASPA Latino Knowledge Community Outstanding Faculty Award. Rendón has also been inducted into the Iowa Academy of Education.

Vijay Kanagala is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Research and Policy in Education, and a lecturer in the department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Kanagala earned a Ph.D. in educational leadership (higher education emphasis) from Iowa State University in 2011. He has Masters degrees in education-student affairs (M.Ed.) and business administration (MBA) also from Iowa State University. He received his B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Madras, Chennai, India, and attended Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia.

Kanagala was introduced to contemplative practices (transcendental meditation and mindful walking) in middle school and has continued to incorporate these practices in his life. In addition to understanding the role of spirituality and teaching for wholeness in the academy, Kanagala's research interests include persistence, transition and campus life experiences of students of color with special emphasis on South Asian American and international college students. His dissertation, "Neither Here, Nor There," explored the experience of immigration, integration, and consciousness development among Generation 1.5 Asian Indian American college students.

About the ACMHE Webinars:

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