Mindfulness in Education

List of contents

1. Introduction – Mindfulness in education 2. Being with mindfulness: some blissful blessings 3. Mindfulness for adulting 4. The alignment argument: at the crossroads between mindfulness and metacognition 5. Reaching out to the disaffected: mindfulness and art therapy for building resilience to violent extremism 6. Mindfulness in education: the case of Singapore 7. Mindfulness – seeping through the cracks in the American context of teacher education 8. A mindful inquiry towards transformative curriculum vision for inclusive mathematics education 9. Deep breathing as a mindfulness practice in year 10 science 10. Emerging understandings of mindfulness through experiential awareness 11. The role of mindfulness in harmonising sustainable lifestyles

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Tobin, Kenneth (City University of New York Tobin
• Assisted by: Kenneth Tobin (Editor), Tobin Kenneth (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367265571
• ISBN: 978-0-367-26557-1
• No. of pages: 130
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, PSYCHOLOGY / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, teacher training, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education