Transforming Learning and Teaching

Kenneth Tobin, Ed.D. (1980), University of Georgia, is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Tobin taught high school science for a decade, and was a professor for 45 years. His research includes contemplative practices, wellness and wellbeing.Konstantinos Alexakos, Ph.D. (2005), Columbia University, is Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Research foci include teaching and learning, emotions, wellness and critical social issues with the goals of improving personal and global wellbeing, sustainability and education.

• Preface: Why This Book and Why Should You Read It?List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Using Heuristics to Enhance the Quality of Cultural ProductionKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos2 Coteaching: Then, Now, and in FutureKenneth Tobin, Konstantinos Alexakos and Malgorzata Powietrzynska3 Expanding the Horizons of Cogenerative DialogueKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos4 Responsive Math Teaching Heuristic: An Intervention for Supporting the Cognitive and Emotional Needs of Preservice TeachersShequana Wright-Chung5 Developing Heuristics with Students: A Heuristic for Student Teacher InteractionKatelin Corbett6 Heuristic as a Tool for Conducting Reflexive Educational Research: Bring the Research to Life!Anna Malyukova7 Minding Our Emotions through HeuristicsJoAnn Rintel Abreu8 Feeling Derivatives? A Visual Arts-Based Student Self-ReflectionLuis A. Zambrano9 Using Heuristics to Sow the Seeds of Mindfulness in Teacher EducationMalgorzata Powietrzynska10 Illuminating the Relational Nature of Teaching | Learning Using Heuristic MethodologyMalgorzata Powietrzynska and Linda Noble11 Student Conduct Administrators and Emotions: Managing Emotions by Developing a Self-Care Practice with HeuristicsCorie A. McCallum12 Mindfulness in Daily Life Heuristic for Cultivating an Equanimous MindYau Yan Wong and Chatree Faikhamta13 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative DialogueCorinna Brathwaite14 Embracing Polysemia and Polyphonia through EDTPAAmy Goods and Nicholas Catino15 Rationale for Designing a Life Purposes Heuristic Informed by Dignity Therapy for Community College StudentsManny Lopez16 Tying Knots and Weaving Ends: Toward a Holistic Paradigm of Arts-Based ResearchMariatere Tapias17 Toward a Theory of HeuristicsWolff-Michael Roth18 Conscious Spaces and Self: Boundaries, Core, Me Not Me, and Being in the HeartKonstantinos Alexakos19 Heuristics for Contemplative ActivitiesKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos AlexakosIndex