How to use this resource
Welcome to our open-access resource on contemplative practices and pedagogy in the classroom. This page provides a quick guide on how to navigate and use this resource. We invite you also to read the foreword from the editors to learn how this resource was co-developed and our intentions for those reading or adapting.
Navigation
To move through the Pressbook, you can use the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons located at the bottom corners of every page. To jump to a specific part or chapter, you can open the Table of Contents at any time by pressing the ‘Contents’ button in the top-left corner of this book.
H5P activities
This book features multiple H5P activities for more opportunities for interaction and learning. For example, Naj Sumar’s reflection exercise on cultural humility. These activities are designed for you as the educator to learn about various concepts introduced in the book, but can serve a double purpose as a teaching tool directly embedded into Moodle. You can copy and edit any H5P activities directly into Moodle by pressing the ‘Reuse’ or ‘Embed’ buttons in the bottom-left corner of the activities.
Text boxes
Throughout the book, we are making use of different types of text boxes to help draw your attention to important pieces of information. We explain the types and purposes below:
Signposting
Some text-heavy pages will feature a contents list at the top to help you jump to lower chapters in the page:
On this page…
Additionally, because of the close interlinking that we intended for this resource, at the bottom of most pages you’ll find a “Related content” box to take you on a non-linear learning path throughout the resource:
Related content
Call-outs
Sometimes, authors wil take a quick detour from the main content or draw out important information in a call-out box like this:
Text here.
