Mapping the Challenges of Mindfulness in Education

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: Empirically Engaged Philosophy of Education: Examining the Relationships Between Philosophy and Educational Research

Abstract

In the past decade, substantial attention has been given to the study of implementations of mindfulness in education, yet only recently the challenges to, critiques of, and resistance to this endeavor have become more noticeable. This paper reviews various challenges that mindfulness in education faces based on academic publications, social media and debates on networks focused on these domains. Mapping these different challenges, the paper offers a more robust understanding of the validity and strength of arguments against and in favor of mindfulness in education and assesses the prospects of this field.

Author

• Oren Ergas, Beit Berl College and Hebrew University