Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training: Development of a Consumption-Specific Intervention
Laura Stanszus, Daniel Fischer, Tina Böhme, Pascal Frank, Jacomo Fritzsche, Sonja Maria Geiger, Julia Harfensteller, Paul Grossman, Ulf Schrader
Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability June 16, 2017 DOI: 10.1515/jtes-2017-0001 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 66 |
| Key findings | Argues that cognitive-focused approaches to Education for Sustainable Consumption have limited capacity to facilitate reflection on affective processes underpinning consumption, and proposes that mindfulness-based interventions can address both cognitive and affective processes. The paper presents a reflexive case study of developing a mindfulness-based intervention tailored to ESC, called "BiNKA-training," and draws lessons for future work on holistic sustainability education. |
Abstract
Abstract Several widespread approaches to Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) have emerged from the tradition of consumer information. A major shortcoming of such cognitive-focused approaches is their limited capacity to facilitate reflection on the affective processes underpinning people’s engagement with consumption. More holistic pedagogies are thus needed to increase the effectiveness of ESC. The concept of mindfulness has recently received growing attention in research on sustainable consumption, given its potential to address both cognitive and affective processes and to stimulate reflection on the drivers of often routinized consumption practices. Despite this recent interest, mindfulness has to date not been systematically connected to ESC. This paper provides a reflexive case study of the development of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) specifically tailored to ESC (“BiNKA-training”). It elaborates the conceptual connections between mindfulness and ESC, offers insights into the process of adapting MBI to ESC and concludes with lessons learnt and an outlook on future work seeking to tap the potential of MBIs to form more holistic approaches to sustainability education.
Comparable studies
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| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brain sources of EEG gamma frequency during volitionally meditation-induced, altered states of consciousness, and experience of the self Advanced meditator | 2001 | Case study | n = 1 |
| Mindfulness Meditation for Alcohol Relapse Prevention: A Feasibility Pilot Study Adult alcohol-dependent graduates of an intensive outpatient program | 2008 | Prospective case series | n = 19 |
| How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator. A single long-term mindfulness practitioner (S) with 40 years of practice in... | 2015 | Qualitative case study | n = 1 |
| Loving‐kindness meditation to enhance recovery from negative symptoms of schizophrenia Individuals suffering from schizophrenia-spectrum disorders with persistent negative... | 2009 | Case study | |
| Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Problem Gambling A female problem gambler | 2011 | Case study | n = 1 |
Citations in the library
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Cites 9
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