This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thursday, September 03, 2015
When Mindfulness Meets the Classroom
Great piece in The Atlantic on mindfulness in the classroom. I have thought about a pedagogy of mindfulness as an antidote to the bombardment of our children by advertisers and media, together with their ready access to a dizzying array of social media options even in the earliest years. Heck, we need this for the college classroom, too.
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