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Mindfulness meditation for future early childhood teachers in Japan
- Source :
- Teaching and Teacher Education. 65:136-144
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- To prevent future burnout and turnover among early childhood education students, mindfulness training may hold promise as a measure. A lab-based pilot and classroom-based feasibility study was designed to investigate an effective way to introduce mindfulness meditation. Results suggested that two types of audio-guided mindfulness meditation, a sitting meditation and a compassion meditation reduced stress level, and that the compassion meditation was perceived as more comfortable than the sitting meditation. As a tentative conclusion, the compassion meditation may be introduced first before the sitting meditation. Additional studies should examine the effects of longer-term meditation practice on teaching career development.
- Subjects :
- Early childhood education
Mindfulness
Psychotherapist
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05 social sciences
050301 education
Compassion
Burnout
Sitting
050105 experimental psychology
Education
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Early childhood
Meditation
Psychology
0503 education
Career development
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Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0742051X
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Teaching and Teacher Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f1e945b86785538f87d7c100c1bbcf31