Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth

M. M. Mourer; Katia G. Karadjova-Kozhuharova

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_79

Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth

M. M. Mourer, Katia G. Karadjova-Kozhuharova

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Abstract

 Work published in   Information Literacy in the Workplace. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 
 
   A research study at a rural, public university revealed interest among college students in engaging in mindfulness and contemplative practices within their university library. This study also identified a gap between interest in contemplative pedagogy among faculty and their engagement in contemplative practices within this newly-created library space, The Library Brain Booth. This study shares the results of visits to the Library Brain Booth by both first-time and returning participants. It also provides mean usage time at each of the following stations that were created to support mindfulness and contemplation: biofeedback, color-relax, game-relax, light-relax, read-relax, silent-relax, sound-relax, audio-meditate, prompt-meditate, video-meditate, gratitude-express, and virtual reality-immerse. The results of the study are intended to support the explicit promotion of metacognition and mindfulness in the academic process, both through mindfulness activities within the library for students, and through contemplative pedagogy in information literacy instruction. 

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Loriene Roy, Sonja Spiranec, Joumana Boustany, Serap Kurbanoglu, Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	781-790
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783319743332
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_79
State	Published - 2018
Event	5th European Conference on Information Literacy in the Workplace, ECIL 2017 - Saint Malo, France Duration: Sep 18 2017 → Sep 21 2017

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	810
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	5th European Conference on Information Literacy in the Workplace, ECIL 2017
Country/Territory	France
City	Saint Malo
Period	09/18/17 → 09/21/17

Scopus Subject Areas

General Computer Science
General Mathematics

Keywords

Academic libraries
Contemplative pedagogy
Contemplative studies
Information literacy
Mindfulness
Undergraduate students

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Mourer, M. M., & Karadjova-Kozhuharova, K. G. (2018). Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth. In L. Roy, S. Spiranec, J. Boustany, S. Kurbanoglu, E. Grassian, & D. Mizrachi (Eds.), Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 781-790). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 810). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_79

Mourer, M. M. ; Karadjova-Kozhuharova, Katia G. / Dare to Share the Silence : Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth. Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Loriene Roy ; Sonja Spiranec ; Joumana Boustany ; Serap Kurbanoglu ; Esther Grassian ; Diane Mizrachi. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 781-790 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Mourer, MM & Karadjova-Kozhuharova, KG 2018, Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth. in L Roy, S Spiranec, J Boustany, S Kurbanoglu, E Grassian & D Mizrachi (eds), Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 810, Springer Verlag, pp. 781-790, 5th European Conference on Information Literacy in the Workplace, ECIL 2017, Saint Malo, France, 09/18/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_79

Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth. / Mourer, M. M.; Karadjova-Kozhuharova, Katia G.
Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Loriene Roy; Sonja Spiranec; Joumana Boustany; Serap Kurbanoglu; Esther Grassian; Diane Mizrachi. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 781-790 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 810).

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Mourer MM, Karadjova-Kozhuharova KG. Dare to Share the Silence: Tools and Practices of Contemplative Pedagogy in a Library Brain Booth. In Roy L, Spiranec S, Boustany J, Kurbanoglu S, Grassian E, Mizrachi D, editors, Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 781-790. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_79

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