Policy documents from OECD and UNESCO have been stressing the need to prepare
students for what has been termed a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world …

Objectives Mindfulness is associated with personal psychological benefits, and recently,
there has been an increase in research regarding its prosocial effect. This article reports on …

With the popularity of positive psychology in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching
and learning, learners' positive emotions have attracted great academic attention. Foreign …

Objectives This paper describes the emergence of the scientific study of mindfulness in
schools; summarizes findings of experimental research on the impacts of school-based …

In the English academic year 2016-17, approximately 312 000 teacher days were lost due to
mental ill health, at a cost of around£ 65 million. Stress amongst pre-service teachers is …

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 …

A confluence of research has emerged in recent years elucidating the benefits of school-
based mindfulness programs (SBMPs). The article by Roeser et al. provides an extensive …

Background: Research demonstrating the positive outcomes of service learning among
university students is robust and some describe the impact as transformative. Purpose: To …

This special section includes a series of papers that envision the next generation of research
on school-based mindfulness programming (SBMP) for students ages 4–18 years. In the first …

Within the recent rise in the incorporation of contemplative practices in higher education,
mindfulness stands out as the most studied and implemented practice. However, most of its …