The Journal of Transformative Education has just published a wonderful collection of articles that they have published over the last 12 years.
This issue contains 9 papers published in the Journal for Transformative Education during the past 11 years. These years have seen significant growth and expansion in the field, particularly in the area of mindfulness. I read recently that mindfulness has become the ‘‘buzzword’’ of the decade. In 2012, there were 550,000 Google searches a month on the key word ‘‘mindfulness’’ (Wilson, 2014, p. 3). Wilson (2014) writes, ‘‘We now have advocates for and practitioners of mindful eating, mindful sex, mindful parenting, mindfulness at work, mindful sports, mindful divorce lawyers, mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindfulness-based addiction recovery, and on and on’’ (p. 3). Although two papers in this collection focus on mindfulness, as a whole, these papers deal with a diverse set of issues related to contemplative education.
Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom
Tobin Hart, 2004
Phyllis Robinson, 2004
Tobin Hart, 2008
Hilary Dencev and Rupert Collister, 2010
Advancing a Second-Person Contemplative Approach for Collective Wisdom and Leadership Development
Olen Gunnlaugson, 2011
A Portrait of Contemplative Teaching: Embracing Wholeness
Kathryn Byrnes, 2012
Patricia Fay Morgan, 2012
Inner Alchemy: Transforming Dilemmas in Education Through Mindfulness
Leigh Burrows, 2015
A Brief History of the Current Reemergence of Contemplative Education
Patricia Fay Morgan, 2014