{"id":316,"date":"2013-10-21T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/10\/21\/mindfulness-in-education\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:59","slug":"mindfulness-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/10\/21\/mindfulness-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ali Smith<\/a> of Baltimore’s Holistic Life Foundation. Photo by Noel Hidalgo<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Something in my news feed caught my eye this morning: A Classroom in the Now<\/a><\/i>, a brief article about the rising popularity of mindfulness meditation and its potential to help students learn. It highlights the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/a>, founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness is a hot topic right now. Drawing on meditation techniques from Buddhist spiritual traditions, secular forms of mindfulness are cropping up in corporate offices<\/a>, college campuses<\/a>, and public schools<\/a>. Closer to home, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health teamed up with Penn State and Baltimore’s Holistic Life Foundation<\/a> to bring mindfulness to urban youth. (Brief article<\/a> in PDF)<\/p>\n

Want to know more? The web (and our library<\/a>!) are brimming with information on mindfulness, but one place to start could be this handy research guide<\/a>, put together by University of Kentucky Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali Smith of Baltimore’s Holistic Life Foundation. Photo by Noel Hidalgo. Something in my news feed caught my eye this morning: A Classroom in the Now, a brief article about the rising popularity of mindfulness meditation and its potential to help Continue reading Mindfulness in Education<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,128,417,418,419],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}