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Book SynopsisMindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and examining contexts that support mindful teaching, mindful learning, and a pedagogy of well-being. Collectively, these chapters document and analyze the opportunities and challenges within pedagogical sites and discuss how the disposition of mindfulness can be nurtured and sustained in educational practice and praxis. Bolstered by the positive evidence-based standards emanating from clinical settings, mindfulness based training has spread into a variety of other fields like psychology, healthcare, and more recently, education.Within pedagogical environments, an emergent secular conception of mindfulness, under the auspices of educational psychologists like Langer (1987; 1997), Goleman, (2008), Lantieri (2008), Roeser, Skinner, Beers, and Jennings, (2012), and Schonert-Reichl and Lawlor (2010),
Trade ReviewThis slender book delivers a variety of practical tools with a careful attentiveness to both individual and institutional contexts. . . .Those interested in mindfulness and how it pertains to HE, as well as those wanting to put MT to use in HE, will find this book of utility. . . .In conclusion, this volume performs well in regard to its intent to initiate exchanges and will be appreciated by those aiming to put mindfulness into practice in HE. * Canadian Journal of Higher Education *
The nine contributors to Mindful Teaching and Learning share their passion for a mindful approach to education and illustrate that approach with personal practices and references to related literature. The focus on pedagogy is as refreshing as it is important.This 6-chapter collection is essential reading for any teacher or teacher educator eager to bring mindfulness into the classroom. -- Tom Russell, Queen's University
Mindful Teaching and Learning is a timely addition to the growing body of literature exploring mindfulness and education. One unique feature of this book is the thoughtful use of methodologies that provides the reader with a window into how the authors have come to understand mindful teaching and learning in their own practice. I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in considering the new lenses afforded by mindful approaches to educational practice and scholarship. -- Shawn M. Bullock, Simon Fraser University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being Karen Ragoonaden Chapter 1: Mindfulness Training: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Assessing Efficacy in Education Elizabeth R. Mackenzie Chapter 2: Mindful Education and Well-Being Karen Ragoonaden Chapter 3: Enhancing Learning through Contemplative Pedagogy Kathryn Byrnes and Tom Bassarear Chapter 4: Living Collaborative Leadership: Cultivating a Mindful Approach Sabre Cherkowski, Kelly Hanson, and Jennifer Kelly Chapter 5: Mindfulness-Based Wellness Education: Pedagogical Insights Geoffrey Soloway Chapter 6: Mindful Curricular Engagement: Preparing Prospective Educators to See/Act with Discernment and Deliberation Margaret Macintyre Latta
