Mindfulness and Its Discontents - Education, Self, and Social Transformation (Paperback)

Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion. Rather than a way to promote human development and social justice, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering. In Mindfulness and Its Discontents, David Forbes provides an integral framework for a critical, social, moral mindfulness that both challenges unmindful practices and ideas and provides a way forward. He analyzes how education curricula across North America employ mindfulness: to help students learn to succeed in a neoliberal society by enhancing the ego through emphasizing individualistic skills and the self-regulation of anger and stress. Forbes argues that mindfulness educators instead should uncover and resist the sources of stress and distress that stem from an inequitable, racist, individualistic, market-based (neoliberal) society and shows how school mindfulness programs can help bring about one that is more transformative, compassionate and just.

General

Imprint:	Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	David Forbes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-1-77363-116-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Promotions
LSN:	1-77363-116-0
Barcode:	9781773631165

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