Rationale for Designing a Life Purposes Heuristic Informed by Dignity Therapy for Community College Students

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Pages:: 311–322

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507609_015

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Abstract

Heuristics are tools to nudge our awareness and our behavior. Much of what we do is enacted without awareness of what is most important to us. We can easily autopilot through a day or more without consciously connecting our actions to our purposes in life. Before we know it, our lived experiences can become a series of unsatisfying monotonous tasks.

In this chapter, I present a rationale for why I developed a Life Purposes Heuristic that is informed by Dignity Therapy. Grounded in contemplative practices of reflection and awareness, I suggest that identifying purposes in life and making meaning of lived experiences can enlighten community college students’ reasons for learning.

In my experience, the institution of community college is not designed for reflection and purpose identification thus, I propose that students enrolled at two-year post-secondary academic institutions is a group well suited to benefit from a heuristic to help with illuminating their learning experiences. My Life Purposes Heuristic is included for review and utilization.

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Transforming Learning and Teaching

Heuristics for Educative and Responsible Practices

Series: Bold Visions in Educational Research, Volume: 73

Cover Transforming Learning and Teaching

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004507609

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Nov 2021

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Front Matter

Preface: Why This Book and Why Should You Read It?

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Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Using Heuristics to Enhance the Quality of Cultural Production

Chapter 2 Coteaching: Then, Now, and in Future

Chapter 3 Expanding the Horizons of Cogenerative Dialogue

Chapter 4 Responsive Math Teaching Heuristic

Chapter 5 Developing Heuristics with Students

Chapter 6 Heuristic as a Tool for Conducting Reflexive Educational Research

Chapter 7 Minding Our Emotions through Heuristics

Chapter 8 Feeling Derivatives?

Chapter 9 Using Heuristics to Sow the Seeds of Mindfulness in Teacher Education

Chapter 10 Illuminating the Relational Nature of Teaching | Learning Using Heuristic Methodology

Chapter 11 Student Conduct Administrators and Emotions

Chapter 12 Mindfulness in Daily Life Heuristic for Cultivating an Equanimous Mind

Chapter 13 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative Dialogue

Chapter 14 Embracing Polysemia and Polyphonia through edTPA

Chapter 15 Rationale for Designing a Life Purposes Heuristic Informed by Dignity Therapy for Community College Students

Chapter 16 Tying Knots and Weaving Ends

Chapter 17 Toward a Theory of Heuristics

Chapter 18 Conscious Spaces and Self

Chapter 19 Heuristics for Contemplative Activities

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