Mindfulness and Its Discontents
Education, Self, and Social Transformation
Seiten
2019
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-77363-116-5 (ISBN)
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-77363-116-5 (ISBN)
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.
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.
David Forbes is the co-editor of Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement and author of Boyz 2 Buddhas.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Black Point, Nova Scotia |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 15 x 23 mm |
Gewicht | 255 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-77363-116-0 / 1773631160 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-77363-116-5 / 9781773631165 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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