Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Weaving Complementary Knowledge System and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives contains 24 chapters written by 33 authors, from 9 countries. The book, which consists of two sections on mindfulness in education and wellness, is intended for a broad audience of educators, researchers, and complementary medicine practitioners. Members of the general public may find appeal and relevance in chapters that advocate transformation in a number of spheres, including K-12 schools, museums, universities, counselling, and everyday lifestyles. Innovative approaches to education, involving meditation and mindfulness, produce numerous advantages for participants in schools, museums, and a variety of self-help contexts of everyday life. In several striking examples, critical stances address a band wagon approach to the application of mindfulness, often by for-profit companies, to purportedly improve quality of education, in contexts where learning has been commodified and ideologies such as neoliberalism have been mandated by politicians and implemented by policy makers. In different international contexts, Buddhist roots of mindfulness are critically reviewed by a number of authors. Chapters on wellness focus on complementary practices, including art therapy, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Iridology, and yoga. Foci in the wellness section include sexual health, prescription drug addiction, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and a variety of common ailments that can be addressed using complementary medicine. New theories, such a polyvagal theory, provide scope for people to become aware of their bodies in different ways and maintain wellbeing through changes in lifestyle, heightened self-awareness, and self-help.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SensePublishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463511827
• Artikelnr.: 53063850

Inhaltsangabe

Researching Mindfulness and Wellness; Part I: Mindfulness in Education; Recalibration of Mindfulness for Education; The Gift of the Present: Mindfulness for the Future of México; Awakening Mindfulness in Science Education; Dynamics of Mindfulness for Purposeful Living; Mindfulness: A Tool for Administrator Teacher Self-Care; Issues in Engaging Mindfulness in Science Education: Critical Perspectives; Mindfulness in Teacher Education: Trials and Tribulations; In Search of Mindfulness: Polish Context of “Being Attentive”; Mindfulness and Neoliberal Education: Accommodation or Transformation?; Mindfulness and Place-Based Education in Buddhist-Oriented Schools in Thailand; Drawing Attention: Notes from the Field; A Mindful Inquiry into Reductionism in Mathematics Education; Part II: Mindfulness and Wellness; Mindfulness and Sexual Wellness: A (Critical) Personal Narrative; Of Two Minds: A Narrative Fiction of Active Addiction and Mindful Sobriety; The Importance of Being Upside-Down: The Mindfulness of Perceiving “As Is”; Jin Shin Jyutsu and Our Hands: Instrumental for a New Way Forward; Coming Face to Face with Fears: Journeying to Wellness; Complementary Approaches to Wellness; Taking Charge of Our Own Wellness through Complementary Approaches: An (Inter)Personal Narrative; Being and Becoming Mindful; Complementary Perspectives on the Enigma of Diabetes Mellitus; Recovery from Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse: Enhancing Personal Sustainability through Mindfulness-Based, Transpersonal Art Therapy; The Effects of Mindfulness Based Interventions on Physiological Regulation; Name Index; Subject Index.