Pedagogies of Healing through Spirituality, Creativity, Mental and Physical Well-being, Connectedness, and Land-Relations.

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Authors in this session leverage critical pedagogy to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools and society, contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness alongside long-term goals of healing by attending to underlying causes of social sickness. Individual papers explore: 1) the relationship between education in the slave quarter and contemporary teaching and learning in order to propose pentecostal pedagogy, an approach to pedagogy rooted in the pursuit of freedom, 2) self-care as a praxis of resistance to stave off the destructive forces of neoliberal technorationalism and afford spaces for collective healing of teachers and students, 3) the value of music, poetry and sounds of nature for bringing forth a pedagogy of appreciation, wonder and gratitude as a means of continuously sustained soul care, 4) healing as a praxis, fueled by radical love for self and others, built by individual commitments to and hinged on collectivized desires towards enacting liberation from forms of supremacy, systemic violence, oppression, and dispossession, 5) history and ancestry in the Brazilian Amazon as lenses to reject legacies of colonization and slavery, negating what is, in anticipation of what could be to construct a new future for the “Deep Amazon,” and 6) how healing the pain that is inflicted by patriarchy, classism, ableism, heteronormativity, and social disconnection must include challenging all policies and practices that silence the corporeal and the physical.

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Pedagogies of Healing through Spirituality, Creativity, Mental and Physical Well-being, Connectedness, and Land-Relations.

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Authors in this session leverage critical pedagogy to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools and society, contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness alongside long-term goals of healing by attending to underlying causes of social sickness. Individual papers explore: 1) the relationship between education in the slave quarter and contemporary teaching and learning in order to propose pentecostal pedagogy, an approach to pedagogy rooted in the pursuit of freedom, 2) self-care as a praxis of resistance to stave off the destructive forces of neoliberal technorationalism and afford spaces for collective healing of teachers and students, 3) the value of music, poetry and sounds of nature for bringing forth a pedagogy of appreciation, wonder and gratitude as a means of continuously sustained soul care, 4) healing as a praxis, fueled by radical love for self and others, built by individual commitments to and hinged on collectivized desires towards enacting liberation from forms of supremacy, systemic violence, oppression, and dispossession, 5) history and ancestry in the Brazilian Amazon as lenses to reject legacies of colonization and slavery, negating what is, in anticipation of what could be to construct a new future for the “Deep Amazon,” and 6) how healing the pain that is inflicted by patriarchy, classism, ableism, heteronormativity, and social disconnection must include challenging all policies and practices that silence the corporeal and the physical.