Leigh Burrows

Safeguarding Mindfulness in Schools and Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

A Holistic and Inclusive Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book assists teachers in school and higher education settings to make informed decisions about whether to include mindfulness in their teaching, depending on their own capacity, student cohorts and activities to make sure it is safe for more vulnerable students. This guidance is based on a combination of existing pedagogical and clinical knowledge about meeting the needs of vulnerable students, clients and patients and the specialized expertise of trained mindfulness clinicians and teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351737203
• Artikelnr.: 49041544

Autorenporträt

Leigh Burrows has a wide background in primary, secondary, alternative and higher education teaching and research. She has held advisory roles in special education, well-being and students at risk and is a qualified solution-focused counsellor who is passionate about the transformative potential of a holistic and inclusive approach that is deeply informed by her 30 years of meditation practice. She has published in the areas of relational mindfulness, spirituality, well-being, teacher professional learning, autism, trauma, dyslexia, and parent-teacher relationships. She has developed the Masters in Education topic Mindfulness and the Inner World of Teaching and presents workshops on mindfulness to a wide range of professionals.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: 'Opening Pandora's Box of Mindfulness in Education': the case
for safeguarding
Chapter 2: 'Turning the Lens of Mindfulness on Ourselves': the significant
role of the teacher.
Chapter 3: 'Crossing the Threshold': attuning ourselves to student
vulnerabilities
Chapter 4: 'Minding the Gap': attunement to learning environment and
activities
Chapter 5: 'Mindfulness is Actually Right Under our Feet When we are Doing
our Best Work': the contribution of teacher preparation
Chapter 6: Creating Calmer Classrooms in the Primary Years
Chapter 7: Engaging with Mindfulness in the Sensitive Secondary Years
Conclusion
Index