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Mindfulness training for better learning
By
Steve Draper,
Department of Psychology,
University of Glasgow.
This page is about whether / how mindfulness training (MT) (i.e. meditation
exercises) can help HE students learn better.
This is an important possibility that I learned about from Siobhan Lynch in
2014.
Siobhan Lynch's:
Southampton staff page
publications
private web site
old academia.edu
See also
here
for more links to her.
If the benefits are established, then the big implementation issue is how
to roll out MT for big numbers of students.
- Who should pay?
- Do you do it face to face (small class sizes, necessarily significant
costs)?
- Or online somehow?
Published papers on educational benefits of MT
For many of the papers below I've given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
as a link. Clicking on it should take you straight to the paper IF
you are logged in with a GUID. Some of these papers are published "online" but
not yet in paper. What that means is that they are online at the publisher,
but will not have their final year, volume, and page numbers yet.
N.B. DOIs are now supposed to be part of correct APA bibliography citations.
- Barbosa,P., Raymond,G., Zlotnick,C., James Wilk,J., Toomey,R.,
& Mitchell,J. (2013)
"Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training is Associated with Greater
Empathy and Reduced Anxiety for Graduate Healthcare Students"
direct download
Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice
vol.26 no.1 pp.9-14 [doi:10.4103/1357-6283.112794]
- de Vibe,M., Solhaug,I., Tyssen,R., Friborg,O., Rosenvinge,J.H.,
& Sorlie,T. (2013)
"Mindfulness training for stress management: a randomised controlled study of
medical and psychology students"
BMC Medical Education vol.13 paper.107
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/107
doi:10.1186/1472-6920-13-107
- Greenberg J, Reiner K, Meiran N (2012)
"'Mind the Trap': Mindfulness Practice Reduces Cognitive Rigidity"
PLoS ONE Vol.7 no.5 e36206
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036206
- Lauricella,S. (2013)
Mindfulness
doi:10.1007/s12671-013-0222-x
- Lynch, S., Gander, M.L., Kohls, N., Kudielka, B. and Walach, H. (2011)
"Mindfulness-based Coping with University Life: A Non-randomized
Wait-list-controlled Pilot Evaluation"
Stress and Health vol.27 no.5 pp.365-375
doi:10.1002/smi.1382
- Lynch (2013)
"Mindfulness
in Higher Education: It's a Win-Win Situation"
Proc. Enhancement and innovation in Higher Education conf. 11-13 June 2013 Glasgow.
- Mrazek,M.D., Franklin,M.S., Phillips,D.T., Baird,B. & Schooler,J.W.
(2013)
"Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance
While Reducing Mind Wandering"
Psychological Science vol.24 no.5 pp.776-781
doi:10.1177/0956797612459659
- Regehr,C., Glancy,D., & Pitts,A. (2013)
"Interventions to reduce stress in university students: A review and
meta-analysis" Journal of Affective Disorders vol.148 pp.1-11
doi:10.1016/j.jad.2012.11.026
- Reid,D.T. "Teaching mindfulness to occupational therapy students:
Pilot evaluation of an online curriculum"
Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy vol.80 no.1 pp.42-48
doi:10.1177/0008417413475598
- Sirois,F.M. (2014)
"Procrastination and Stress: Exploring the Role of Self-compassion"
Self and Identity Vol.13 No.2 pp.128-145
doi:10.1080/15298868.2013.763404
- Gishen, F., Lynch, S., Gill, D., Jawad, S.,
& Peters, D. (2018)
Medical Student Resilience: a symposium approach
Clinical Teacher vol.15 no.1 pp.1-3
doi: 10.1111/tct.12761
- Lynch, S., Gander, M. L., Nahar, A., Kohls, N., & Walach, H. (2018)
Mindfulness-Based Coping With University Life:
A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Study
SAGE Open vol.8 no.1 pp.1-7
doi:
10.1177/2158244018758379
Other links
A student wiki page on MT and education
A student wiki page on mindfulness
including DIY exercises
Siobhan Lynch
her on mindfulness and students
academia.edu
Staff page
Lynch (2013) paper
Mindfulness training.
Mindfulness for HE Students Network
UK Network for
Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations
"Lecture 10: Western Research on Mindfulness and
Critique" podcast by Eleanor Rosch
mp3 direct
Kirk Warren Brown , Richard M. Ryan & J. David Creswell (2007)
"Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects"
Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of
Psychological Theory vol.18 no.4 pp.211-237
doi:10.1080/10478400701598298
[Target paper for discussion, on mindfulness]
Mindfulness training for better learning (2)
In 2018 I am taking another look at whether mindfulness (MFM) has any specific
contribution to make to learning.
Many students use MFM to alleviate anxiety and stress, including specifically
exam stress.
There have been claims that MF also contributes to learning.
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