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Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

Author : Malgorzata Powietrzynska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005706
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life written by Malgorzata Powietrzynska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life invites readers to explore the role mindfulness can play in mediating how we enact social life in today’s increasingly challenging and challenged world. The educators and researchers who have contributed to this book use mindfulness as a lens to address and untangle what is becoming a profoundly complicated way of being within the reality of global capitalism. Education is framed broadly – the research transcends the walls of classrooms and includes museums, nursing homes, hospitals, AA meetings, and homes. Hence, the chapters feature participants occupying varied social positions and spaces that may be situated in different parts of the globe. The authors address two overarching and dialectically related themes of mindfulness and wellness and collectively the chapters expand possibilities for readers to act mindfully in a world in which wellness and wellbeing are pervasive concerns as a fragile Earth adapts to a dynamic flux of human-led changes that threaten the future of lifeworlds that support humanity and myriad species that face extinction. The authors do not offer oversimplified solutions to dramatically switch direction and preserve life, as we have known it. Instead, the ideas that emerge from the research presented in this volume expand possibilities for informed conduct, self-help, and educating citizens with a goal of individuals and collectives transforming lifeworlds by embracing mindfulness-saturated ontologies.

Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives

Author : Małgorzata Powietrzyńska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463511822
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives written by Małgorzata Powietrzyńska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving Complementary Knowledge System and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives contains 24 chapters written by 33 authors, from 9 countries. The book, which consists of two sections on mindfulness in education and wellness, is intended for a broad audience of educators, researchers, and complementary medicine practitioners. Members of the general public may find appeal and relevance in chapters that advocate transformation in a number of spheres, including K-12 schools, museums, universities, counselling, and everyday lifestyles. Innovative approaches to education, involving meditation and mindfulness, produce numerous advantages for participants in schools, museums, and a variety of self-help contexts of everyday life. In several striking examples, critical stances address a band wagon approach to the application of mindfulness, often by for-profit companies, to purportedly improve quality of education, in contexts where learning has been commodified and ideologies such as neoliberalism have been mandated by politicians and implemented by policy makers. In different international contexts, Buddhist roots of mindfulness are critically reviewed by a number of authors. Chapters on wellness focus on complementary practices, including art therapy, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Iridology, and yoga. Foci in the wellness section include sexual health, prescription drug addiction, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and a variety of common ailments that can be addressed using complementary medicine. New theories, such a polyvagal theory, provide scope for people to become aware of their bodies in different ways and maintain wellbeing through changes in lifestyle, heightened self-awareness, and self-help.

Mindfulness in Education

Author : Kenneth Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000113566
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mindfulness in Education written by Kenneth Tobin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how mindfulness has been infused into education to produce favorable outcomes, such as stress reduction, heightened focus, resilience, calmness, alertness, mood regulation, self-awareness, professional commitment, and increased compassion and kindness to self and others. The chapters are situated in diverse contexts, including schools and colleges, warfare, violent extremism, global warming, child sex abuse, and species extinction. A feature of the book is the use of what is learned from ongoing research to design interventions to increase the incidence of mindful practices, to enhance learning and forms of conduct to transform social life and sustain harmonious lifestyles. Inclusion of mindfulness-based interventions in teacher education programs include breathing meditation and tools such as heuristics and mindful writing. Breathing meditation and its relationship to mindfulness is addressed, including abdominal breathing as a component of meditation, leading to mindful conduct and physiological changes, including heart rate and blood oxygenation levels. The extent to which breathing practice includes nasal and oral inhalation and exhalation is also considered in relation to increasing levels of nitric oxide in the airways, thereby enhancing social communication and wellness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning: Research and Practice.

Practising Compassion in Higher Education

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000835855
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Practising Compassion in Higher Education written by Narelle Lemon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a collective international story, this book demonstrates the importance of compassion as an act of self-care in the face of change and disruption, providing guidance on how to cope under trying conditions in higher education settings. Practising Compassion in Higher Education presents an opportunity to learn through story and by taking proactive action for our wellbeing. It highlights the need to protect and maintain the wellbeing of staff and students, positioning the COVID-19 pandemic as a major catalyst of disruption. The chapters connect theory with lived experience, exploring self-compassion in work and research, compassion in teaching practice and within the personal/professional blur. The book’s contributors bring a range of theoretical and personal perspectives from various global contexts, sharing their own approaches to self-care and how compassion has become a central and crucial element of this practice. This book takes a unique approach to navigating and surviving the higher education environment and offers valuable lessons for the pandemic era and beyond. This will be an essential resource for students and professionals working in all areas of higher education.

Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000474011
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education written by Narelle Lemon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing. It is a place where many of us spend significant amounts of our time, where we find meaning, and often form a sense of identity. Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education explores the notion of finding meaning across academia as a key part of self-care and wellbeing. In this edited collection, the authors navigate how they find meaning in their work in academia by sharing their own approaches to self-care and wellbeing. In the chapters, visual narratives intersect with lived experience and proactive strategies that reveal the stories, dilemmas, and tensions of those working in higher education. This book illuminates how academics and higher education professionals engage in constant reconstruction of their identity and work practices, placing self-care at the centre of the work they do, as well as revealing new ways of working to disrupt the current climate of dismissing self-care and wellbeing. Designed to inspire, support, and provoke the reader as they navigate a career in higher education, this book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing, and/or identity.

The Teaching Self

Author : Jane E. Dalton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475836333
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Teaching Self written by Jane E. Dalton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Teaching Self: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education, a rich collection of voices from diverse settings illustrates the ways in which first-person experiences with contemplative practices lay a foundation for contemplative pedagogy and research in teacher education. Contemplative practice depends on cultivating an understanding of oneself, as well as one’s relationship and interdependence of others and the world, and it is this precept that guides the focus of these portraits of practice. The teaching self of the scholar benefits from reflective and authentic engagement and a commitment to equity and ethical action. Several authors examine the direct and indirect influence contemplative practices have on their students as future educators. All of the authors in this book share first-hand experiences with contemplative practices that honor, support, and deepen awareness of the teaching self by exploring the journey of identifying as a contemplative educator.

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527346
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: priorities for research and education presents what we learned from research on wellness, intense emotions and health issues together with uses of complementary medicine, mindfulness practices, and interventions for self-care, and caring for others.

Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446885
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suited for students of educational research and researchers and practitioners involved in teaching and learning, teacher education, and policy. Readers experience potentially transformative research that is applicable to today’s challenges.

Time for Educational Poetics

Author : Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398066
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Time for Educational Poetics written by Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time for Educational Poetics address a discussion of today’s philosophy of education and educational research: educational poetics is not limited to a theoretical construction, but rather focuses on creative, imaginative and poetic experience, to being recreated in the teaching-learning process.

Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Author : Kim Beasy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819938023
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals written by Kim Beasy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people’s lives. Readers will find examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal. The book adds to the increasing body of literature that recognises that education is, and must be, in its praxis, at the heart of all the SDGs. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we have a clear understanding of the wicked and complex crises regarding the health of life on our planet, and we cannot ignore the high levels of anxiety our young people are experiencing about their future. Continuing in the direction of unsustainable exploitation of people and nature is no longer an option if life is to have a flourishing future. The book illustrates how SDGs are supported in and by education and training, showcasing the conditions necessary to ensure SDGs are fore fronted in policy reform. It includes real-world examples of SDGs in education and training contexts, as well as novel critiques of the SDGs in regard to their privileging of anthropocentrism and neoliberalism. This book is beneficial to academics, researchers, post graduate and tertiary students from all fields relating to education and training. It is also of interest to policy developers from across disciplines and government agencies who are interested in how the SDGs relate to education.

Using Mindfulness Skills in Everyday Life

Author : Christine Dunkley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317384830
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Using Mindfulness Skills in Everyday Life written by Christine Dunkley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, more mental health treatments have begun to incorporate mindfulness as a skill to help people with their problems. Despite this, not everyone is sure how to incorporate mindfulness effectively into their daily lives. Giving simple explanations, examples and exercises, Using Mindfulness Skills in Everyday Life shows clearly how this is done. The book, written by two NHS clinicians experienced in teaching mindfulness, takes a down-to-earth approach, providing straightforward answers to the most commonly asked questions. The authors give definitions of mindfulness and guide people through instructions on how to set up and evaluate simple practices. As each component is taught, they provide examples of real-life situations, so the reader can clearly see how to be more mindful as they face the ups and downs of modern living. This practical guide is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn mindfulness to help with difficulties and challenges. It is also the perfect book for therapists, coaches, teachers, social workers, nurses, psychiatrists and psychologists to recommend to their clients. The book is ideal for students on clinical training courses.

Eco-Art Therapy in Practice

Author : Amanda Alders Pike
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000369641
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Art Therapy in Practice written by Amanda Alders Pike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-Art Therapy in Practice is uplifting, optimistic, and empowering while outlining cost-effective, time efficient, and research-based steps on how to use nature in session to enhance client engagement and outcomes. Dr. Pike employs her background and credentials as a certified educational leader and board-certified art therapist to walk readers through establishing ecologically-based practices— such as growing art materials using hydroponics regardless of facility constraints. Each chapter is aligned with the continuing education requirements for art therapy board certification renewal to make its relevance clear and to orient the book for future training program integration. Appendices feature clinical directives in easy-to-follow, one-page protocols which encourage readers to consider client needs when applying methods, along with intake forms to bolster real-world application. This text will help clinicians and educators to employ eco-art therapy in practice, in turn empowering their clients and conveying an inclusive message of respect— respect for self, others, community, and the world.

Case Studies in Ecohealth

Author : Susan C. Cork
Publisher : 5m Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789183286
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Case Studies in Ecohealth written by Susan C. Cork and published by 5m Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Studies in Ecohealth is primarily intended to be a student textbook, using a series of case studies to illustrate key concepts applicable to EcoHealth, with a focus on taking an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex problems at the interface between animals and their environment. Using case studies, the book will illustrate key concepts in ‘EcoHealth’ allowing readers to better understand the strengths and challenges of taking an ‘Eco Health’ approach Within the key themes addressed in the book, the reader will gain insight into how to approach complex problems at the animal-environment interface using a transdisciplinary approach Access to the case studies presented in the book, along with supplementary material on line, will provide the reader with good examples of current and emerging issues for discussion in the class room or for field experience programs 5m Books

Embodied Family Choreography

Author : Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351801651
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Family Choreography written by Marjorie Harness Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden, it presents the first investigation of how touch and interaction between bodies, in conjunction with talk, constitute a primary means of orchestrating activities through directives, thus creating rich relationships through supportive interchanges, and engaging in playful explorations of the world. Through close investigation of the sequential and simultaneous engagement of bodies interacting with other bodies, this book makes visible the important role touch plays in the context of contemporary Western middle class family life and is pioneering in its analysis of how the visual, aural, and haptic senses (usually analysed separately) mutually elaborate one another. As such, Embodied Family Choreography will appeal to scholars of child development, the sociology of the family and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900439334X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly globalizing world, the pressing challenge for science and mathematics educators is to develop their transdisciplinary capabilities for countering the neo-colonial hegemony of the Western modern worldview that has been embedded historically, like a Trojan Horse, in the international education export industry. Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures introduces the world to next-generation multi-worldview research that empowers prospective educational leaders with a vision and voice for designing 21st century educational policies and practices that foster sustainable development of the diverse cultural capital of their multicultural societies. At the heart of this research are the principles of equity, inclusiveness and social justice. The book starts with accounts of the editors' extensive experience of engaging culturally diverse educators in postgraduate research as transformative learning. A unique aspect of their work is combining Eastern and Western wisdom traditions. In turn, the chapter authors – teacher educators from universities across Asia, Southern Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific – share their experience of research that transformed their philosophies of professional practice. They illustrate the following aspects of their engagement in research as transformative learning for sustainable futures: excavating auto|ethnographically their lifeworld experiences of learning and teaching; developing empowering scholarly perspectives for analysing critically and reflexively the complex cultural framings of their professional practices; re-visioning their cultural and professional identities; articulating transformative philosophies of professional practice; and enacting transformative agency on return to their educational institutions. Contributors are: Naif Mastoor Alsulami, Shashidhar Belbase, Nalini Chitanand, Alberto Felisberto Cupane, Suresh Gautam, Bal Chandra Luitel, Neni Mariana, Milton Norman Medina, Doris Pilirani Mtemang'ombe, Emilia Afonso Nhalevilo, Hisashi Otsuji, Binod Prasad Pant, Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi, Yuli Rahmawati, Indra Mani Rai (Yamphu), Siti Shamsiah Sani, Indra Mani Shrestha, Mangaratua M. Simanjorang, and Peter Charles Taylor.

Everybody Present

Author : Nikolaj Rotne
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1937006476
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Everybody Present written by Nikolaj Rotne and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody Present illustrates the transformative effects of mindfulness on educators, students, and their classrooms. Using concrete examples, Didde and Nikolaj Flor Rotne present a mode of classroom engagement that reduces stress to make room for thoughtful learning. A working manual addressed to everyone in the educational universe, Everybody Present presents real-world applications grounded in solid research. Stories, exercises, and case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of mindful practices across all areas of education. By exploring the challenges of teaching, Everybody Present will help all educators transform feelings of inadequacy into experiences of abundance. Everybody Present seeks to create a new kind of culture in our schools: one that counters stress and facilitates learning. It reframes the student-teacher relationship, showing teachers how to supplant antagonism and foster strong relationships by planting seeds of mindfulness in their students and encouraging them to embark on a mindfulness practice of their own. Everybody Present is intended to contribute to the creation of a culture throughout the educational system writ large, working against stress and victim mentality to set in motion a revolution of silence, allowing each individual the experience of inter-being, inner calm, and joy.

Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9463511822
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving Complementary Knowledge System and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives contains 24 chapters written by 33 authors, from 9 countries. The book, which consists of two sections on mindfulness in education and wellness, is intended for a broad audience of educators, researchers, and complementary medicine practitioners. Members of the general public may find appeal and relevance in chapters that advocate transformation in a number of spheres, including K-12 schools, museums, universities, counselling, and everyday lifestyles.