Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing

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This edited volume explores the role of arts and meditation within educational settings, and looks in particular at the preventive and developmental function of the arts in educational contexts through different theoretical perspectives. Encompassing research from an array of disciplines including theatre, psychology, neuroscience, music, psychiatry, and mindfulness, the book draws insights relevant to a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary fields. Chapters are divided into thematic sections, each outlining praxes and emphasising how educating within and through the arts can provide tools for critical thinking, creativity and a sense of agency, consequently fulfilling the need of well-being and contributing towards human flourishing. Ultimately, the book focuses on the role the arts have played in our understanding of physical and mental health, and demonstrates the new-found significance of the discipline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With its interdisciplinary and timely nature, this book will be essential reading for scholars, academics, and post-graduate researchers in the field of arts education, creative therapies, neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures About the editors and contributors Introduction: A gaze into a complex jigsaw PART I: The Creative Mind 1. A dual model of mindfulness and flow, shared neural substrates: With a specific focus on individual sports performance 2. Flow synchronisation and shared emotions towards understanding collective flow experience 3. Creativity and health: Artistic experiences as well-being PART II: The Sensorial Mind 4. Music, mindfulness and meditation: A neuroscientific account 5. Music for hedonia and eudaimonia: During pandemic social isolation 6. The impact of orchestral playing on children’s lives 7. Healthcare, incarceration and arts-based practices PART III: The Embodied Mind 8. Visiting death and learning to live through theatre in military education 9. (Re)centring the body: Bodyography, autonomy as pedagogy and human flourishing 10. Human flourishing through dance practice 11. Exploring the use of a visual model: Are we dancing together? PART IV: The Collective Mind 12. Literature for human growth through our own lense 13. The neuroscience of ethics: Does yoga, meditation, and mindfulness training make you a better person? 14. Human rights and ethics as a spiritual practice 15. Arts as aesthetic education: Understanding the challenges related to citizenship Conclusion: A beam of light to conclude with Index