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Many recent studies have confirmed that mindfulness meditation has wide ranging potential to improve the mental health and well-being of adults, though few studies have explored its potential to help younger populations. In the current study, a sample of 4th and 2nd grade students was trained in the techniques of mindfulness meditation. Baseline electroencephalograms (EEGs) were taken before the training, and again after a 10 week period of daily meditation practice. Measures of attention, creativity, affect, depression, behavioral inhibition/activation, emotion regulation, impulsive/aggressive behaviors, and social anxiety were also administered before and after the meditation practice period. Results indicate that mindfulness meditation produces increased relative left-frontal alpha activation, a brain pattern that has been associated with increased positive affect and more adaptive coping responses to aversive events. Significant post-meditation improvements in depression and creativity were also found in the experimental condition. / by Sara Elizabeth Klco. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Educators, authors and policymakers continue to address the quality and focus of higher education in the United States. Some have noted the unprecedented number of students entering professional colleges and universities as a gateway to promising careers, while others have suggested that our schools lack the wherewithal to reconstitute the idea of a liberally educated person. Yet, over the past 16 years there has been considerable growth in the number of institutions that have established new graduate programs in Liberal Studies. This study examined the growth associated with those programs and addressed the issues of why the programs were started; whom they served; and, how they fit and operated within their host institutions. The methodology encompassed survey and case study research. The population consisted of the total number of schools actively affiliated with the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP). / Ed. D.

This trans-disciplinary and [trans-modal] dissertation practices the work of inclusive design that students of music (do or do not) encounter as part of their music education. Using inclusive design practices focused on the domains of the written word, the auditory-aural artifact, and the artistic-visual artifact, this work reflects upon three schools of pedagogy and philosophy within the broader academy, primarily not found in the musical academy. The schools of humanism, liberation, and transformation are considered as objects-subjects of reflection utilizing four authors (James Cone, Paolo Freire, Jack Mezirow, and Bertrand Russell); this work is rooted in the practice of critical reflection as understood through the lens of the author Stephen Brookfield. The authors’ assets were collected through analog and digital booksellers and analog and digital library available databases; the author consumed accessibility and accommodative digital programs to aid the researcher. Three themes emerged as follows: one, humanity has largely been excluded from the study of music education, resulting in an intensely human invention often resulting in inhumane practices and theories; two, transformation is a fundamental component of musical education, in that it studies humans transforming both words and music, as well as subsequent performances being transformations of what was to what can be (again); and, three, liberation is the implicit goal at the center of musical education, in that being a music educator is an attempt to liberate the musicianship innate to the human existence from the oppression the body has consumed. Each of these themes written as separate chapters closes with a pedagogy-philosophy of the chapter’s theme. The dissertation concludes with a reflection on music education in light of the pedagogies and philosophies examined. Keywords: Music, ethnography, reflection, philosophy, pedagogy, Humanity, liberation, transformation

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-05T13:18:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Henrique Ciucci da Silva.pdf: 1366323 bytes, checksum: 8e0174dad0665db18a13a568dfff6a12 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-05T13:18:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Henrique Ciucci da Silva.pdf: 1366323 bytes, checksum: 8e0174dad0665db18a13a568dfff6a12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The dissertation discusses the anthropological and philosophical conception, which Paulo Freire used to ground a pedagogy of the encounter and a political pedagogy. Starting from the idea of a pedagogy of the meeting, the perspective that goes through the dissertation is the social relation of the individual, having, thus, a critical synthesis on the pedagogical context. The thinker from Pernambuco approaches Maritain's Integral Humanism when he affirms that there is no education without relating the teacher to the student in the human context that exists between them. In the Marxian view and the critique of teaching and learning, Paulo Freire discusses the problems and antagonisms of classes, starting with an analysis of two pedagogical political projects: dialogic education, one that places the individual in a world reading and makes it the historical subject and antidialogical education that makes the subject a mere object of its context and does not show the world in a political language. In phenomenology, Paulo Freire shows that the task of knowing is directed to the subject and not to the object. And it is as subject and only as subject, that the man can really know. In the philosophical conception, Paulo Freire is dedicated to speaking about the context of freedom in Sartre and on the Personalism of Mounier. In freedom in Sartre, Paulo Freire argues that the individual without this does not realize a critical view of the world, because it will be in a false dialogue. About the Personalism de Mounier, Paulo Freire points out to us the problematic of human beingship, that only through an education of appreciation of the person, there will be possibilities for reflection / A dissertação discute a concepção antropológica e filosófica, as quais Paulo Freire utilizou para fundamentar uma pedagogia do encontro e uma pedagogia política. Partindo da ideia de uma pedagogia do encontro, a perspectiva que percorre a dissertação é a relação social do indivíduo, tendo assim, uma síntese crítica sobre o contexto pedagógico. O pensador pernambucano se aproxima do Humanismo Integral de Maritain, ao afirmar que não existe uma educação sem relacionar o docente com o discente, no contexto humano que existe entre ambos. Na visão marxiana e a crítica sobre o ensino e a aprendizagem, Paulo Freire discute os problemas e os antagonismos de classes, lançando-se numa análise de dois projetos políticos pedagógicos: a educação dialógica, aquela que coloca o indivíduo em uma leitura de mundo e o faz ser o sujeito histórico e a educação antidialógica, que faz o sujeito ser um mero objeto de seu contexto e não mostra o mundo em uma linguagem política. Na fenomenologia, Paulo Freire mostra que a tarefa do conhecer é direcionada ao sujeito e não ao objeto. E é como sujeito e somente enquanto sujeito, que o homem pode realmente conhecer. Na concepção filosófica, Paulo Freire dedica-se a falar do contexto da liberdade em Sartre e sobre o Personalismo de Mounier. Na liberdade em Sartre, Paulo Freire discute que o indivíduo sem esta não realiza uma visão crítica do mundo, pois ficará em um diálogo falso. Acerca do Personalismo de Mounier, Paulo Freire nos indica a problemática da coisificação humana, que somente através de uma educação de valorização da pessoa, haverá possibilidades de reflexões

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985.

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Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985. / Also available in print.

This heuristic and inductive study proposes a philosophy and models for a humanizing role for higher education in the computer age. The university's traditional role stands the risk of serious erosion through increasing emphasis on technological programs, particularly in the computer areas. The pressures from inside and outside the university threaten to produce increasing numbers of what have been termed "highly educated barbarians." Because computerization offers to be a pervasive and widely-felt influence on society, the university must see that its graduates—both the producers and the consumers of computerization—become humane, liberally educated persons; they must have technical excellence and also an understanding of the "system Man." The study calls for an enhanced new curriculum fostering a "new mind" for the computer age, encompassing quality of both technique and humanity in its students.