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Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

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Editors:
  1. Malgorzata Powietrzynska

    1. SUNY Brooklyn EOC, USA

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  2. Kenneth Tobin

    1. The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA

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  • The authors present research, theory and practice associated with mindfulness and wellness in contexts that include schools, universities, counseling, addiction, medicine, museums, and everyday life
  • The book goes beyond descriptions of what was learned from theory and practice to provide expanded possibilities to improve mindfulness and wellness in schools, universities, hospitals, museums and everyday life
  • As well as research on teaching, learning, and teacher education, the authors explore mindfulness and wellness in doctor - patient relationships, drug addiction, aesthetics of contemporary art, and reducing stress in everyday life

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research (BVER)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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    1. Mindfulness as a Way of Life

      • Kenneth Tobin
      Pages 1-24

  3. Mindfulness in Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Mindfulness and Flow in Transpersonal Art Therapy

      • Elisabeth Taylor
      Pages 27-46

    3. Concentration is the Seed

      • Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz
      Pages 47-58

    4. Mindfulness Interventions in Classroom Learning Environments

      • Joanna Higgins, Raewyn Eden, Azra Moeed
      Pages 59-72

    5. Meditation

      • Sonam Daker, Jambay Lhamo, Sonam Rinchen
      Pages 73-88

    6. Mindfulness

      • Linda Noble
      Pages 89-102

    7. Engaging with Silence

      • Shannon Murphy
      Pages 103-114

    8. Mindfulness in Education

      • Carolina Rodrigues De Souza, Mauricio Pietrocola
      Pages 115-133

    9. Last Child in the Woods

      • Debra Mitchell, Deborah J. Tippins, Young Ae Kim, Gretchen D. Perkins, Heather A. Rudolph
      Pages 135-158

    10. I Walk In Nature More Confidently

      • Young Ae Kim, Gretchen D. Perkins, Heather A. Rudolph, Debra Mitchell, Deborah Tippins
      Pages 159-184

  4. Mindfulness and Wellness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Learning Mindfulness One Surgery at a Time

      • Heather A. Rudolph
      Pages 187-198

    3. It’s Not About Me

      • Peter Waldman
      Pages 199-212

    4. From the Grip of Depression to a Newfound Euphoria for Living

      • Malgorzata Powietrzynska
      Pages 213-234

    5. Mindfulness or Recursive Oscillatory Processes of Attunement?

      • Federica Raia, Mario C. Deng
      Pages 235-257

    6. The Possibility of Play

      • Amy Goods
      Pages 259-269

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 271-280
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • SUNY Brooklyn EOC, USA

    Malgorzata Powietrzynska

  • The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA

    Kenneth Tobin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

  • Book Subtitle: Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

  • Editors: Malgorzata Powietrzynska, Kenneth Tobin

  • Series Title: Bold Visions in Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-570-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-570-8Published: 23 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 280

  • Topics: Education, general

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