Mindfulness in schools
Issues of equality and diversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P J Hemming (0000-0003-4903-866X, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, corresponding author), Elena Hailwood (Independent Researcher, UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 675-690 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2024.2351887 |
| OpenAlex | W4396847620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Mindfulness is increasingly offered in schools around the UK, as well as internationally. Previous research has focused on the efficacy, the implementation, and the wider meaning of mindfulness in education, rather than sociological interests, such as matters of equality and social justice. This article draws on qualitative data from the 'Mapping Mindfulness in the UK' study, to investigate how mindfulness practitioners discuss and address issues of equality and diversity in relation to school-based mindfulness. Lynch and Baker's key dimensions of equality are used to analyse participants' accounts, including on adjustments to curriculum and pedagogy to accommodate diversity, practitioners' responses to socio-emotional vulnerability, and the dynamics of choice and compulsion in the classroom. By highlighting several issues of concern in these areas, the research makes original contributions to sociological understandings of mindfulness and other similar initiatives in schools, whilst offering new insights on theories of equality in education more broadly
Curriculum · Diversity (politics · Meaning (existential · Mindfulness · Pedagogy · Psychotherapist · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Child Therapy and Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
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I feel proud we are moving forward”
Social and emotional pedagogies
Emotional pedagogy and the gendering of social and emotional learning
Social and emotional aspects of learning
Adding Lemon Juice to Poison – Raising Critical Questions About the Oxymoronic Nature of Mindfulness in Education and Its Future Direction
The Limits of Mindfulness
Shaping mindful citizens
Awareness and Experience of Mindfulness in Britain
Promoting mindfulness in education
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |