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Contemplative dialogue as the basis for a transdisciplinary attitude: Ecoliteracy toward an education for human sustainability
World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
Pages: 224 - 245
Sources ID: 82796
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Our EcoDialogue Center is an educational space for human sustainability within the University of Veracruz. We propose that creating sustainable knowledge requires re-thinking how we conceive ourselves as human beings. This requires paying attention to what we call “the quality of being,” which means caring about and attending to the physical–emotional–mental–spiritual as the foundation of education. This way we can create a space where we can dialogue contemplatively where all dimensions of our lives interact; the physical, the emotional, the communitarian, the social politic, the planetarium, and the spiritual being act with social–environmental responsibility.