Mindfulness in the Academy: Practices and Perspectives from Scholars by Narelle

Description: Mindfulness in the Academy by Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Back Cover 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. Author Biography 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. Narelles 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 peoples lives from various disciplines in the community on Instagram via @exploreandcreateco. Dr. SharonMcDonough 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. Table of Contents 1 Mindfulness in the Academy: An examination of mindfulness perspectives.- Integrity, compassion, and care.- 2 Doormats & Boulders: Uncovering mindfulness traits and wise discernment during stressful experiences in the academy.- 3 Emerging into academic life: Masks of selves and mindful managing of anxiety and perfectionist performance.- Becoming, identity, and professional transitions.- 4 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Changing institution, changing role, changing academic identity?.- 5 Mindful practice as professional identity work.- 6 Exploring mindfulness in teaching-learning scholarship through a reflective conversation.- Collegiality, collaboration and relationships.- 7 Trending to ourselves, tending to each other: Nurturing feminist friendships to manage academic lives.- 8 Its about fun stuff! Thinking about the writing process in different ways!.- 9 Im not playing the academic hunger games: Self-awareness and mindful practices in approaching research collaborations.- Leadership, professional vulnerability and change.- 10 Ko wai au? Self-construction of leadership identity in higher education.- 11 The role of mindfulness in managing HRM challenges for senior higher education learning and teaching leaders.- Conscious decisions, being present, and voice.- 12 Mindful care and compassion in higher education: Cultivating communities of practice.- 13 Yoga and pedagogical mindfulness in higher education.- 14 Casualisation, mindfulness, and the working lives of academics.- Resistance, social justice and being the change.- 15 The right kind of ambition.- 16 A glitch in the machine or a glimmer of what could be? Mindfulness as resistance in higher education.- 17 Mindfully living and working in the academy: Continuing the conversation. Feature 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 Details ISBN9811321426 Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore Year 2018 Edition 1st ISBN-10 9811321426 ISBN-13 9789811321429 Format Hardcover Imprint Springer Verlag, Singapore Subtitle Practices and Perspectives from Scholars Place of Publication Singapore Country of Publication Singapore Edited by Sharon McDonough DEWEY 370.15 Pages 294 Publication Date 2018-09-07 Short Title Mindfulness in the Academy Language English DOI 10.1007/978-981-13-2143-6 UK Release Date 2018-09-07 Illustrations 5 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 294 p. 5 illus. Author Sharon McDonough Birth 1944 Affiliation Technical University of Braunschweig Position Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography Qualifications MD, PhD, FACP, FIDSA Edition Description 1st ed. 2018 Alternative 9789811347382 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130687112;

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