This describes using meditation practices and postmodern practices as a tool to promote a sense of collaboration and mutual responsibility for learning. It outlines a method through which the students and the instructor aims to become equal partners, and move from inexpert listeners to expert colleagues.
This article examined the effect of Mindfulness based stress reduction courses that were offered in drug units in six Massachusetts prisons. The study found that there were improvements in hostility, self-esteem, and mood disturbance
This article is about how mindfulness meditation is increasingly recognized as a health promotion practice. It also discusses how it is being integrated into colleges in order to enhance learning. The author also believes that these trends provide the opportunity to develop an experimental curriculum to teach this that would emphasize accessibility across economic, religious, and ethnic groups.
This study investigates how the length of meditation history affects various factors including, learning motivation, learning outcome and classroom climate. This study investigated the correlation between the amount of meditation experience and the learner's perception of learning outcome and classroom climate.
This article describes a curriculum designed to assist 64 post baccalaureate minority students in developing and practicing a stress-management technique. Students participated in deep breathing meditation exercises in two classes and they completed surveys before and after as well as follow-up surveys each academic year. This article concluded that this technique provided the students with a promising solution for academic and professional situations.
This article discussed a survey done at a large, southeastern university in which 223 graduate students completed a survey about factors that contributed to their stress. They also discussed different coping strategies between males and females, as well as other ways to reduce stress levels.
This article examines Natural Stress Relief meditation, which is a mental technique which is practiced for 15 minutes twice a day, aims to reduce stress and anxiety by eliciting a specific state of physiological rest along with mental alertness. The meditation is taught in a self-administered program. This was administered to 25 participants four times over a 3 week period. The article concluded that the difference in Trait Anxiety score between pretreatment and before starting the practice was not significant, while it was significant both after the first week of practice.
This article evaluated the effects of stress, rumination, forgiveness, and hope of two 8 week, 90-min a week training program for college undergraduates in meditation based stress management tools. The article concluded that meditation based stress management practices reduces stress as well as enchance forgiveness among college undergraduates.
This study tested the feasibility of using the Transcendental Meditation technique to reduce stress and anxiety as a means of reducing symptoms of ADHD. They tested students aged 11-14 were taught this technique and practiced it twice a day in school.