{"title":"Emerging understandings of mindfulness through experiential awareness","authors":"J. Higgins, Raewyn Eden","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428144","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mindfulness practices are increasingly used in classrooms to enhance the well-being dimensions of learning environments. New Zealand policy documents draw on a bicultural perspective that promotes a holistic framing of well-being. This paper will consider the transformative possibilities of a mindfulness-based breathing intervention in two New Zealand classrooms of students aged between 10 and 12 years old. Operational definitions of mindfulness include awareness of emotional, cognitive, and physical experiences rather than a focus on a state of mind. Using authentic inquiry, we draw on multi-theoretical and multi-methodological perspectives to explore observing/noticing/attending to sensations/perceptions/thoughts/feelings associated with a classroom mindfulness intervention. Specifically, we examine students’ increased awareness and evolving understandings of mind | body connections that emerged during cogenerative dialoguing. We found that students puzzled over whether it is possible to separate physical, mental and emotional states. We consider the implications of the mindfulness-breathing intervention in generating participants’ insights into well-being and wellness.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"78 1","pages":"102 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74288385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mindfulness – seeping through the cracks in the American context of teacher education","authors":"Małgorzata Powietrzyńska, Linda Noble","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428140","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the context of the United States, we provide our rationale for infusing mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) into a graduate-level teacher education course. In our philosophy and pedagogical approach we attempt to counterbalance an individualistic, divisive, oppressive, and often dehumanising nature of education. Adopting Richard Davidson’s wellness framework, we describe how our use of MBIs, including breathing meditation, heuristics, free-writing, and cogenerative dialogues, may contribute to cultivating components of integrated teacher well-being. Mindfulness is framed as a relational construct and as a part of a toolkit which educators may access in their professional and personal lives. Drawing on data obtained through an end-of-semester feedback survey, we provide a brief analysis of students’ perceptions of the value of mindfulness practices in teacher preparation and beyond.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"30 8 1","pages":"66 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88081536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep breathing as a mindfulness practice in year 10 science","authors":"Donna King, Senka Henderson, Maryam Sandhu","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Abdominal deep breathing (DB) has been used in conjunction with paying attention on purpose to the present moment as a mindfulness tool to help students develop skills for managing emotions. While studies are emerging that investigate outcomes of mindfulness practices with adolescents, how to implement such practices, and students’ reactions to them, requires further research. This study examines a DB intervention in a year 10 science class where the teacher implemented DB exercises in each science lesson. One main outcome reported in this study is that the time to adapt to the DB exercises and experience its effectiveness varied for individual students. Gleaned from our presence in the classroom and speaking with the teacher and students, we suggest nine recommendations for implementing DB exercises in Australian middle years classrooms.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"66 1","pages":"101 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76516114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being with mindfulness: some blissful blessings1","authors":"Kashiraj Pandey","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1433619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1433619","url":null,"abstract":"I count blessings by relating primary attitudes to each of my fingers when the silence was not enough to protect me. At first, I hold my thumb to lessen some alarming worries, then, with efforts, I am trying to stay away from all forms of extremism. I hold my little finger to suppress the pain of many months. I pretend to be happy: No, no anger thus far: no terror yet. The middle finger is never bothered; my meditative mind preserves the enduring strength as compost for more stories. A result: I am able to host Samata, an unconditional equanimity.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"402 1","pages":"10 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76533050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The alignment argument: at the crossroads between mindfulness and metacognition","authors":"Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to identify and discuss the challenges and main problems associated with the interrelations between mindfulness and metacognition, and to provide strategic options for the future to deal with the potential of both in educational scenarios. Two central questions are the guidance: how is it possible to think about thinking? What aspects make a self-reflexive process possible in relation to metacognition and mindfulness? In the first part I analyse key intersections between metacognition and mindfulness. Then I present an overlapping problem as a hypothesis. In the third part of the paper I introduce an argument of self-awareness alignment as an interrelated commonality in mindful and metacognitive practices. I argue from textual evidence of Sanskrit philosophy for a solution on an overlapping problem. I describe significant positive intersections between mindful and metacognitive interventions.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"15 1","pages":"29 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85882803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reaching out to the disaffected: mindfulness and art therapy for building resilience to violent extremism","authors":"Elisabeth Taylor","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428109","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Alienation and moral disengagement have been described in the literature as some of the key factors for making some people more vulnerable to violent extremism. In this paper, I explore how mindfulness training, especially when paired with art therapy strategies, has great potential for supporting targeted educational measures for building resilience to violent extremism in individuals and communities.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"2 1","pages":"39 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88194437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mindfulness in education","authors":"K. Tobin","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1433623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1433623","url":null,"abstract":"For almost 20 years our research has focused on the role of expressed emotions during teaching and learning – predominantly in high school science classes (Roth & Tobin, 2010). The research was sit...","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"140 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75661692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of mindfulness in harmonising sustainable lifestyles","authors":"K. Tobin","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1435039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1435039","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I begin with a review of our research on meditation, mindfulness, expressed emotions, and physiological variability while teaching. Then, through the theoretical lenses of polyvagal theory, I examine an event from our ongoing research in which a teacher had very low levels of blood oxygenation. Apparently, her body switched from parasympathetic to sympathetic functioning. As well as changes in prosody and facial expression of emotion being consistent with her body operating in a fight/flight mode, the teacher also was breathing through her mouth. This led to an intensive review of studies on breathing and the production of nitric oxide in humans, its benefits, and the desirability of breathing in and out through the nose. Based on what I learned from our empirical work and a review of literature, I designed two interventions – a breathing heuristic and a meditation activity that incorporates nasal breathing and humming during the outbreath.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"27 1","pages":"112 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75231033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A mindful inquiry towards transformative curriculum vision for inclusive mathematics education","authors":"Bal Chandra Luitel","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428141","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Exploring ways to develop a transformative curriculum vision for mathematics education that is inclusive to opposing perspectives and ideologies, this mindful inquiry explores “mindless” views embedded in the mathematics curriculum of Nepal; explores narrowly conceived disempowering assumptions within it; engages in dialectical interactional texturing among perspectives; and eventually emerges with its transformative potentiality. In so doing, this reflection on hegemonic worship of modernity identifies Newtonian reductionism, absolutism, and non-fluidity of language, serving mono-cultural perspectives as restraints underlying inclusive mathematics curriculum. Reflecting on this meaning-making, and in seeking an equilibrium view of reality, the inquiry hopefully offers pluralism, synergy, and montage as imperative in making mathematics education more meaningful.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"27 1","pages":"78 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91191265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mindfulness in education: the case of Singapore","authors":"Kiat Hui Khng","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428120","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the formal introduction of mindfulness-based practices (MBPs) into clinical settings in the late 1970s, a growing body of research has demonstrated their benefits in diverse settings, from clinical programmes, business and sports, to education. Along with the development of standardised mindfulness-based programmes in the areas of clinical therapy, counselling, self-enhancement, and corporate training, standardised curricula for school-based mindfulness have become available, and are gaining popularity around the world. However, the adoption of MBPs in schools in Singapore, whether formally or informally, seems to be lagging behind that of counterparts in countries such as Australia, the UK, and the USA. This paper describes the current state of mindfulness-in-education in Singapore, focusing on the extent and ways in which MBPs are incorporated into the local school setting. Included are brief introductions to mindfulness, mindfulness in education, and mindfulness-in-education research in Asia. Local research and continuing efforts in the area, as well as challenges and future directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"6 1","pages":"52 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80969956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}