Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing

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.

Tatiana Chemi is Associate Professor of Educational Innovation, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark and Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chester, UK.

Elvira Brattico is Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Lone Overby Fjorback is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Danish Center for Mindfulness, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.

László Harmat is Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, Linneaus University, Växjö Sweden.