How to use this resource
Welcome to our open educational resource (OER) on contemplative practices and pedagogy in the classroom. This page provides a quick guide on how to use and navigate 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 from it.
What is OER?
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials in any medium that permit no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others. Contemplative pedagogies engages with the community-oriented work of building, sharing, and adapting to best practices. This open guide in Pressbooks encourages the growth of contemplative practices, which is why we encourage follow educators to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given.
Learn more about Open Educational Resources with our publisher Concordia University Library and see other OER in the Concordia catalogue.
Attribution statement
Contemplative practices and pedagogy in the classroom Copyright © 2026 by Centre for Teaching and Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Want to contribute?
This is intended to be a living resource – growing and changing as we grow and change. We welcome new contributions from our community of educators. To express interest in contributing, please get in touch with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at teaching@concordia.ca.
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.
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.
