From Contemplative Inner Quest to Care and Love for the World and Oneness of All Creations: An Interview with Jing Lin

Authors

  • Jing Lin
  • Annie Rappeport
  • Heesoon Bai

Keywords:

Contemplative Education, Contemplative, Interview, Contemplative Perspectives

Abstract

In this interview, Dr. Heesoon Bai and Dr. Annie Rappeport (one of Dr. Jing Lin’s former doctoral students) give Dr. Jing Lin, a pioneer in holistic and contemplative education, the opportunity to recount the early influences in her life (e.g., the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976), her graduate school experiences, her early professorial career, the transformative influence of Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist philosophies on her personal and academic lives, and her advocacy of those philosophies. Doctors Rappeport and Lin share details of and insights into the graduate student-professor relationship, and Dr. Lin details her teaching, course and program development effforts, and her extensive publishing work in the fields of sustainability and ecological ethics, spirituality, Asian philosophies and their applications, and her roles in the AERA and its Holistic Education Special Interest Group (SIG).

 

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Author Biography

Jing Lin

Dr. Jing Lin is a professor in International Education Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. She currently serves as the Chair of the AERA Holistic Education Special Interest Group. She has published many books and articles focusing on peace and environmental education, spirituality, religion and education, and contemplative inquiry and holistic education. Some of the publications are: Love, Peace and Wisdom in Education(2006); Educators as Peace Makers: Transforming Education for Global Peace (2008); Spirituality, Religion, and Peace Education (2010); Transformative Eco-Education for Human and Planetary Survival (2012); Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm (2016); Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being (2019); and Daoist Cultivating of Qi and Virtue for Life, Wisdom and Learning (2020).

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Published

2023-11-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): Contemplative Perspectives and Practices in Holistic Education

Section

Gallery Walk