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Mindfulness in the Academy

Practices and Perspectives from Scholars

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Narelle Lemon

    1. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Sharon McDonough

    1. Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia

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  • Examines the specific ways higher education academics have implemented mindfulness practices in their work

  • Introduces the lived experience of academics, and connects experiences with strategies for the current climate

  • Considers the work of academics in higher education from a range of perspectives

  • Provides an international perspective on the role of mindfulness in academic practice

  • Offers practical strategies for informal and formal mindfulness practices

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Mindfulness in the Academy: An Examination of Mindfulness Perspectives

    • Sharon McDonough, Narelle Lemon
    Pages 1-21

  4. Becoming, Identity, and Professional Transitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Mindful Networks? Navigating and Negotiating Life and Work in Academia

      • Katy Vigurs
      Pages 59-70

    3. Mindful Practice as Professional Identity Work

      • Chad M. Morrison
      Pages 71-82

    4. Exploring Mindfulness in Teaching–Learning Scholarship Through a Reflective Conversation

      • Marni J. Binder, Jennifer Martin, Jasna K. Schwind
      Pages 83-96

  7. Conscious Decisions, Being Present, and Voice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Mindful Care and Compassion in Higher Education: Cultivating Communities of Practice

      • Helen M. Correia, Karin Strehlow
      Pages 189-202

    3. Yoga and Pedagogical Mindfulness in Higher Education

      • Jane Bone
      Pages 203-215

    4. Casualisation, Mindfulness and the Working Lives of Academics

      • Sarah Pinto, Kirstie Close
      Pages 217-230
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About this book

This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness practices that increase the capacity to transform mind and body states by drawing on concepts such as compassion, kindness, gratitude, curiosity, self-awareness and non-judgemental stances. The book provides insights into and highlights the struggles of scholars through their experiences and perspectives in relation to their identities, practices and job enactment. Each chapter author explains their mindfulness practices and their motivations for implementing them, and explores how mindful ways of researching, writing, learning and teaching, leading, and engaging with others leads us to self-awareness and engagement in the present.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Narelle Lemon

  • Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia

    Sharon McDonough

About the editors

Dr Narelle Lemon is an Associate Professor of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She currently holds the Deputy Chair of Education – Learning and Teaching role  within the Department of Education.  Narelle’s research is focused on engagement and participation in the area of building learner capacity to engage with cultural organisations and community arts programmes, arts education, and social media for cultural knowledge and professional development. She is interested in the lived experience of being an academic – care, collaboration, mentoring, mindful and supportive practices informed by positive psychology. Narelle blogs at Chat with Rellypops, Tweets as @Rellypops and @MindfulAcademic (with Sharon), and curates an online project to promote stories of how creativity and mindfulness are applied to people’s lives from various disciplines in the community on Instagram via @exploreandcreateco. 


Dr. Sharon McDonough is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Arts at Federation University Australia. She began working in teacher education after a 16-year career as a secondary school teacher. Sharon has an interest in collaborating with schools and organisations to provide learning opportunities for pre-service teachers, and is committed to supporting the ongoing learning of pre-service teachers, teachers and teacher educators. She researches in the fields of self-study, teacher emotion and embodiment, mentoring and resilience.

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