06
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
mindfulness in the classroom
categories: contemplative pedagogy
Calming the teenage mind in the classroom
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/08/health/mindfulness-teenagers-schools-stress/
Lexxi Seay, a senior, was skeptical. “I actually never believed really in meditation. … I thought it was a joke,” she said during an interview.
Students “are just craving for ways to handle and cope with their stress” in healthy and nondestructive ways, said Gueritault. “It becomes sort of like instinctive and intuitive for them to just search for alternative ways to cope with their stress that have nothing to do with drugs or alcohol or whatever destructive behavior.”
More on mindfulness in education in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=mindfulness&submit=Search