Debating yoga and mindfulness in public schools : reforming secular education or reestablishing religion? /

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Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Candy Gunther (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Religion in the public schools > United States.
Religion in the public schools > Law and legislation > United States.
Yoga.
Meditation.
Yoga
Religion dans les écoles publiques > États-Unis.
Méditation.
Yōga (Japanese painting styles)
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Religion in the public schools.
Religion in the public schools > Law and legislation.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Education and law : court rulings on prayer and Bible reading
  • Transcendental meditation : from Malnak v. Yogi to quiet time
  • Yoga in America
  • Modern Ashtanga yoga
  • The Jois Foundation partnership with the Encinitas Union School District
  • Sedlock v. Baird
  • After Sedlock
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction
  • Mindfulness in education
  • Superbrain yoga
  • Waldorf methods
  • Science : claims and evidence of health benefits and adverse effects
  • Religion : identifying and explaining religious effects
  • Ethics : misidentifying religious practices as fully secular.

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