Integrating Mindfulness in Education

Julie Vardhan, PhD, DBA, is Assistant Professor, Amity UniversityvJharkhand, India. She is an academician with around 20 years of experience in universities in the United Arab Emirates and India. Holding a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from SMC University, Switzerland, she was earlier associated with a national media house, an international bank, and a Fortune 500 company, and she has integrated this experience into the academic world. Her research papers have been published in several acclaimed international journals. Her areas of research interest are higher education, entrepreneurship, and sustainable marketing.Madhuri Mahato, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director at Amity Business School, Amity University Jharkhand, India. She is an engineering graduate and holds a dual master’s degree in the area of Human Resource Management. She is also an internationally certified trainer. She possesses close to two decades of experience in management teaching, faculty training, research and publications, institutional development, and academic administration. She has extensive research contributions to her credit with various research papers in high-impact journals indexed by Scopus/ABDC. She has also published books, case studies, book reviews, and conference papers. She has an h-index of 10 and counting. She has also organized various national- and international-level conferences, faculty development programs, workshops, and management development programs. In her two decades of experience, she has led teams responsible for various accreditations, has been a member of the board of studies, academic council, and research advisory committee and is a PhD co-supervisor at various reputed national and international universities. Her major areas of interest include emotional labor, gender studies, higher education, university incubation, and organizational psychology studies.

• Introduction 1. Tracing the Evolution of Human Values: A Comprehensive Review 2. Mindfulness in Education: The Way Forward for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 3. Students’ Mental Health: Examining Mindfulness Education as a Remediating Pathway to Psychological Peace 4. Exploring and Benchmarking the Indian Education System with Finnish Education Perspectives 5. Integrating Human Values in Management Education: Perspectives and Expectations 6. Mindfulness and Self-Identity 7. Ligature Impact of Language: Language Used to Create Unique Identities? 8. Cognitive Bases for Moral Development from an Upanishad Context 9. Examination Reforms and Holistic Progress Card 10. A Review of Literature on Positive Impact of Mindful Education for Enhanced Learning and Well-Being 11. Be Mindful of Your Mind for a Sustainability Mindset 12. Education: An Outcome for Value-Based Learning

“An exceptional compilation of mindfulness practices in education for holistic development. . . . The editors, experienced in the education sector, have explored mindfulness in education from a variety of perspectives . . . This book is grounded in research and provides insight into various theories, models, and practices of mindfulness and implementing it in educational settings. . . . Offers a user-friendly tool to explore and understand self and the various stakeholders in the educational settings—an essential yet often overlooked part of holistic development.” —From the Foreword by Rishi Ranjan, Director, Public Cloud Services at Kyndryl (IBM Spinoff), Heartfulness Mediation Trainer, India