Mindfulness in Education

ISBN-13: 9780367265571 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 130 str.

Kenneth Tobin

Opis

This book explores how mindfulness has been infused into education to produce favorable outcomes, such as stress reduction, heightened focus, resilience, calmness, mood regulation, and self-awareness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning: Research and Practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Mindfulness in education Kenneth Tobin 2. Being with mindfulness: some blissful blessings Kashiraj Pandey 3. Mindfulness for adulting Heesoon Bai, Avraham Cohen, Muga Miyakawa and Thomas Falkenberg 4. The alignment argument: at the crossroads between mindfulness and metacognition Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz 5. Reaching out to the disaffected: mindfulness and art therapy for building resilience to violent extremism Elisabeth (Lily) Taylor 6. Mindfulness in education: the case of Singapore Kiat Hui Khng 7. Mindfulness – seeping through the cracks in the American context of teacher education Małgorzata Powietrzyńska and Linda Noble 8. A mindful inquiry towards transformative curriculum vision for inclusive mathematics education Bal Chandra Luitel 9. Deep breathing as a mindfulness practice in year 10 science Donna King, Senka Henderson and Maryam Sandhu 10. Emerging understandings of mindfulness through experiential awareness Joanna Higgins and Raewyn Eden 11. The role of mindfulness in harmonising sustainable lifestyles Kenneth Tobin

O autorze

Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He has undertaken research on teaching, learning, and learning to teach science since 1973. His present research addresses mindfulness, emotion, wellness, and sustainability, focusing on educating the public, birth through death, and emphasizing literacy for sustainable and happy/healthy lifestyles.