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Researching Mindfulness and Wellness

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Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives

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In this chapter I address mindfulness and wellness as priorities for educators and citizens in a complex, rapidly changing world. The issues I address include the context of everyday life, emphasizing stress and emotions as salient to the quality of interactions and wellness. The importance of educating the citizenry from birth through death is identified as a priority.

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  1. SUNY Brooklyn EOC, USA

    Małgorzata Powietrzyńska

  2. The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA

    Kenneth Tobin

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Tobin, K. (2017). Researching Mindfulness and Wellness. In: Powietrzyńska, M., Tobin, K. (eds) Weaving Complementary Knowledge Systems and Mindfulness to Educate a Literate Citizenry for Sustainable and Healthy Lives. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-182-7_1

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