Chris McCaw

Meditative Inquiry in Dialogue With Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist Praxis

Christopher T McCaw, John Quay

Book Chapter  |  2022

Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the 'belaboured self'

Christopher T McCaw, Jessica Gerrard

Journal article  |  2022  |  CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION

This paper examines the complex interweaving of the ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ in the affective labour of teachers. In line wit..

Meditative Inquiry in Dialogue With Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist Praxis

CT McCaw, J Quay

Book Chapter  |  2022

Beyond deliberation-radical reflexivity, contemplative practices and teacher change

Christopher T McCaw

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE

At the level of classroom practice, forms of teacher thinking are central to local processes of educational change. In the last de..

Liminality and the beginning teacher: strangers, frauds and dancing in the disequilibrium

Christopher T McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

Becoming a teacher involves not merely the accumulation of disciplinary knowledge and pedagogical techniques, but also significant..

The quarantine archives: educators in "social isolation"

Ligia Licho Lopez Lopez, Christopher T McCaw, Rhonda Di Biase, Amy McKernan, Sophie Rudolph, Aristidis Galatis, Nicky Dulfer, Jessica Gerrard, Elizabeth McKinley, Julie McLeod, Fazal Rizvi

Journal article  |  2020  |  HISTORY OF EDUCATION REVIEW

Purpose: The archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to underst..

Mindfulness ?thick? and ?thin?? a critical review of the uses of mindfulness in education

Christopher T McCaw

Journal article  |  2019  |  OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION

‘Mindfulness’ is a term which holds increasing currency within educational research, policy and practice. However, there is substa..

Contemplative practitioners, becoming teachers: a study of the implications of contemplative practices for teacher professional becoming

Christopher Thomas McCaw

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

This thesis explores the implications of contemplative practices for beginning teachers, focusing on issues of identity, being and..

Reflection, Contemplation and Teacher Problem Solving in the World(s) of the Classroom

J Quay, CT McCaw

Book Chapter  |  2019

Thinking is at the heart of teaching and learning. In this chapter,we explore how two connected modes of thinking—contemplative an..

Secondary School Students’ Ideas of Learning and Schooling. A Case-Study of an Intensive, Experiential Middle-Years Program

Christopher McCaw

Journal article  |  2017  |  Curriculum Perspectives

This article reports on an empirical study of a curriculum innovation at a Victorian government secondary school. The aim of the s..