This paper explores a countermovement that is emerging within an educational climate that
highlights accountability, standardisation and performativity. This countermovement has …

Recent claims that people spend 30–50% of their waking lives mind wandering
(Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010; Kane et al., 2007) have become widely accepted and …

Higher education institutions have been accused of losing their moral orientation and failing
to provide students with a meaningful educative experience. This paper exposes the roots of …

Following the exponential rise in publications on mindfulness in education and the
emergence of some critical perspectives on this field, this paper articulates three roles of …

In this study we analysed the potential of a mindfulness programme for improving
psychosocial wellbeing among students at a Dutch university. Based on interviews and …

Against the pressures of standardization, some argue for the need to expand teachers'
awareness to their “teaching self” because teachers “teach who they are.” This article …

Abstract Objectives We developed the Calm Spot app, which displays one, randomly
selected two-minute nature video per usage, for the purpose of replenishing children's …

This paper offers a novel, easy to execute, mindfulness‐based solution to the waiting time
problem at healthcare facilities in particular, with the potential to enhance consumers' …

Opinions on the value of self-study in teacher education are fierce. Utilising our relative
perspectives as insider and outsider to this methodological approach to researching one's …

Mind-wandering is often seen as the result of a certain attention behavior or even an
attention deficit. However, Gestalt psychological research points to other explanations: The …