Educational Researchers React to the "Educational Researcher"

Carnot E. Nelson; Jackie Greaner; Robert Hack

doi:10.2307/1174801

Educational Researchers React to the "Educational Researcher"

Educational Researcher ◽

10.2307/1174801 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Carnot E. Nelson ◽

Jackie Greaner ◽

Robert Hack

Keyword(s):

Educational Researcher

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The European Educational Researcher

10.31757/euer ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Educational Researcher

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Mindfulness for teachers: notes toward a discursive cartography

History of Education Review ◽

10.1108/her-12-2018-0030 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 91-108

Author(s):

Remy Low

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Teacher Educator ◽

Entry Point ◽

Historical Research ◽

Educational Researcher ◽

Content Type ◽

Discursive Formation ◽

Heuristic Device

Purpose For the interested teacher, teacher educator and educational researcher seeking an entry point into how mindfulness relates to teachers’ work, the burgeoning and divergent appeals for the relevance of mindfulness to teachers can be bewildering. The purpose of this paper is to offer teachers, teacher educators and educational researchers a conceptual framework for understanding the different orientations and sources of mindfulness as it has been recommended to teachers. Design/methodology/approach Using Foucault’s (1972) concept of “discursive formations” as a heuristic device, this paper argues that mindfulness as pitched to teachers can be helpfully understood as arising from three distinct orientations. Findings Statements about mindfulness and its relevance to teachers emerge from three distinct discursive formations – traditional, psychological and engaged – that each constitute the “problem” faced by teachers respectively as suffering, stress or alienation. Specific conceptions of mindfulness are then advanced as a solution to these problems by certain authoritative subjects and institutions in ways that are taken as legitimate within each discursive formation. Originality/value Apart from offering a historical and discursive mapping of the different discursive formations from which mindfulness is pitched to teachers, this paper also highlights how each of these orientations impies a normative view of what a teacher should be. Suggestions for further historical research are also offered along the lines of genealogy, epistemology and ontology.

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