Description
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781773631165
Author David Forbes
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Publisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Weight(grams) 255g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 1mm