1. Contemplation as 'Kairotic' Composure
- Author
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Stavenhagen, W. Kurt and Dougherty, Timothy R.
- Abstract
This essay claims that contemplative classroom practices can cultivate "kairotic" composure, which is an attunement to the dual aspects of the rhetorical concept of "Kairos"--a sense of timelessness or deep presence, and a sense for saying or writing the right word in the right moment. While theorists of contemplative writing pedagogy have helped ground the first aspect of "kairos", current theorists of "kairos" have grown our understanding of the second. This essay unites both streams of scholarship with a cultural rhetorics framework that foregrounds storying relationships in time and place. We then share classroom exercises that can advance such "kairotic composure" across disciplines, increasing presence-based learning responsive to relationships in time and place.
- Published
- 2019