CHAPTER 13: Embodying Higher-Education Towards Integrity

This chapter addresses what is construed by influential accounts as a moral crisis within higher education by appealing to a “body-oriented pedagogy.” The recurrent theme within these accounts (Bok, 2003; Lewis, 2006; Palmer & Zajonc, 2010) depicts universities as succumbing to a market economy policy which has taken over their loftier vocation as institutes which should instill a sense of meaning and purpose within the lives of their students. The pursuit of knowledge as a means for university prestige has gradually disintegrated academia and life, intellect and heart, body and mind, and knowledge and self. This disintegration is met in this chapter by exploring the practice of the “yogic” posture thus appealing to “yoga” as the Sanskrit term which translates as binding together (Feuerstein, 2001).