Spirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot

This paper describes the results of a research survey that interpreted the patterns of mindfulness and spirituality within a convenience sample of preservice teachers at a Midwest teacher education institution.  Mindfulness and spiritualty represent topics of developing interest in teacher educatio...

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Autores principales: Kelsey L. Evans-Amalu, Thomas A. Lucey, Miranda Lin
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:39b516b1817042f3bd6d6673c9a3ca112021-12-02T02:05:01ZSpirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot10.46303/jcsr.2021.122690-2788https://doaj.org/article/39b516b1817042f3bd6d6673c9a3ca112021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://curriculumstudies.org/index.php/CS/article/view/100https://doaj.org/toc/2690-2788 This paper describes the results of a research survey that interpreted the patterns of mindfulness and spirituality within a convenience sample of preservice teachers at a Midwest teacher education institution.  Mindfulness and spiritualty represent topics of developing interest in teacher education that serve to increase candidate focus and revision of practice.  Respondents completed a survey as part of a semester’s project that interpreted the results of a semester-long mindfulness intervention on student mindfulness and spiritual attitudes and practices. The findings determined that participants had senses of mindfulness and self the emphasized themselves, and their external worlds, let weak connection with a higher spiritual entity.  Significant differences were observed between early childhood and elementary majors. Kelsey L. Evans-AmaluThomas A. LuceyMiranda LinOpenED NetworkarticleMindfulnessSpriritualityPreserviceTeacher EducationEducation (General)L7-991ENJournal of Curriculum Studies Research, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2021)
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Sprirituality
Preservice
Teacher Education
Education (General)
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Sprirituality
Preservice
Teacher Education
Education (General)
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Kelsey L. Evans-Amalu
Thomas A. Lucey
Miranda Lin
Spirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot
description This paper describes the results of a research survey that interpreted the patterns of mindfulness and spirituality within a convenience sample of preservice teachers at a Midwest teacher education institution.  Mindfulness and spiritualty represent topics of developing interest in teacher education that serve to increase candidate focus and revision of practice.  Respondents completed a survey as part of a semester’s project that interpreted the results of a semester-long mindfulness intervention on student mindfulness and spiritual attitudes and practices. The findings determined that participants had senses of mindfulness and self the emphasized themselves, and their external worlds, let weak connection with a higher spiritual entity.  Significant differences were observed between early childhood and elementary majors.
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title Spirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot
title_short Spirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot
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title_fullStr Spirituality and Mindfulness Practices of Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Snapshot
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