Nature-based Mindfulness and the Development of the Ecological Self When Teaching in Higher Education

Albrecht, Nicole

doi:10.1108/s1479-368720200000034010

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“…Moreover, once the participants were exposed to the zikr meditation practice, there were significant differences in ecopsychology scores between the pre-test and the post-test (H2a was accepted). This result, which is inconsistent with a prior study, indicated that practicing meditation can assist expand our understanding of the self (Albrecht, 2020). Baillie (2003) recognizes the role meditations can play in facilitating human-nature connectedness and recommend the practices as one way to develop the ecological self.…”

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confidence: 62%

The Ecopsychological, Spiritual, Physiological Health and Mood Benefits of Zikr Meditation and Nature for Muslim University Students

Roslan¹,

Ismail²,

Zaremohzzabieh³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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Muslim students' wellbeing is said to be impacted by zikr meditation because it fosters a sense of connection between the self and nature. Consequently, this study attempts to look into how zikr meditation and being in nature might help Muslim university students' ecopsychological, spiritual, physical, and mental wellbeing. Using the random selection method, this study assigned 160 Muslim university students to either (i) engage in zikr meditation or (ii) not engage in meditation in both green outdoor and indoor settings. Blood pressure and pulse rate were then measured to assess physiological responses; Results: The level of mood disturbances, heart rate, and systolic blood pressure are all significantly reduced by the combination of nature-zikr exposure. Spirituality score and the ecopsychology value score were both significantly greater in the meditation group than in the control group. Spending time outside is an effective way to increase spirituality and eco-psychological selfvalue, according to differences between pre-and post-test results. Although further research is needed to replicate these effects in other populations/environments, this study implies that Muslim university students gain significantly from zikr meditation and exposure to nature.

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The Ecopsychological, Spiritual, Physiological Health and Mood Benefits of Zikr Meditation and Nature for Muslim University Students

Roslan¹,

Ismail²,

Zaremohzzabieh³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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“…The analysis of scientific works allowed determining that the problem of developing planetary thinking is usually studied at the level of primary or preschool education. In light of trends in higher education, research focuses not only on the development of ecological thinking (Albrecht, 2020;Sharafutdinova et al, 2020;Goodyear & Ellis, 2019), which is inherently much "narrower" than planetary thinking. Concept of planetary thinking refers generally to the person's worldviewand up-to-date world's direction of sustainable development support.…”

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confidence: 99%

Information and Communication Technologies as a Means of Developing Global Planetary Thinking among Students of Non-Humanitarian Specialties

Maiatina

Salata

Bachynska

et al. 2021

IJLTER

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The aim of our work was to investigate the impact of the use of information and communication technologies on the development of global planetary thinking of future specialists of multiply non-humanitarian specialties (by educational areas of training in economics, tourism and programming). The general scientific methods, developed by the authors’ model of testing with open and closed questions, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical data processing were applied while conducting the current study. The model of diagnostics allows obtaining such results at the stage of the Control Experiment: a Good and Excellent Level of knowledge generally have about 35% of the respondents (quite low). We have developed training courses for the following subjects: Philosophy, Ecology and Environmental Economics with the use of information and communication technologies. Formative Experiment test allows distinguishing that quite a high level of unsatisfactory perception have about 11%. At the stage of the formative experiment, the positive effect of the course implementation became obvious. Approximately 61% of respondents found out Good and Excellent level of knowledge, Level of unsatisfactory perception decrease almost in twice and was about 6% (quite a low). The results of the of the Control Experiment stage allowed determining that the courses of the fundamental, natural sciences and general economic training are built to give students a strong foundation of basic knowledge in each subject, but without proper development of planetary thinking. We consider experimental testing of other effective innovative learning technologies for the development of planetary thinking among future specialists to be the prospect of further research. In addition, there is a need to conduct comparative studies in order to check initial and after-experiment results of planetary thinking concept as one of the central.

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“…(Kelan, 2011;Leigh, 2018;Quinn & Maddox, 2022); and hands-on community projects or nature-based experiences (e.g. out-of-classroom learning and immersive experiences) (Albrecht, 2020).…”

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Shaping a Sustainable Future

2022

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This book gives insights into important factors that are shaping effective learning for sustainability and describes innovative teaching formats that will enable students to contribute to a more sustainable world in their future role as decision makers. Basic concepts in the context of sustainability-related teaching and learning are defined and the relation between learning objectives, methods, skills and outcomes is conceptualised. The book’s detailed description of 23 teaching formats, including their learning objectives, course contents and structure, as well as applied methods aims at supporting lecturers and trainers in the design of their own teaching formats. With conbtributions by Pilar Acosta, Bimal Arora, Hasret Balcioglu, Diana Bank Weinberg, Maria Angeles Bustamante Gallego, Silke Bustamante, Julen Castillo-Apraiz, Helen Chiappini, Arrate Lasa Elguezua, Iñaki Etaio Alonso, Diego Rada Fernandez de Jauregui, Irene Garnelo-Gomez, Jonatan Miranda Gomez, Zsuzsanna Győri, Tony Henshaw, Igor Hernandez Ochoa, Mark Hoyle, Maria V. Ilieva, Divya Jyoti, Achilleas Karayiannis, Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, Philipp Kenel, William Kitch, Tetiana Kravchenko, Idoia Larretxi Lamelas, Edurne Simón Magro, Olaia Martinez Gonzalez, Martina Martinovic, Virginia Navarro Santamaria, Maria, Nemilentseva, Rana Parweeen, Andrea Pelzeter, Daria Podmetina, Manuel Quirós, Ellen Saltevo, Marina Schmitz, Elena Senatorova, Kai Shaman, Aušrinė Šilenskytė, Julia Solovjova, Unai Tamayo Orbegozo, Marko, Torkkeli, Itziar Txurruka Ortega, Gustavo Vargas-Silva, Anna Young-Ferris and Chuan Yu.

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Nature-based Mindfulness and the Development of the Ecological Self When Teaching in Higher Education

Cited by 7 publications

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The Ecopsychological, Spiritual, Physiological Health and Mood Benefits of Zikr Meditation and Nature for Muslim University Students

The Ecopsychological, Spiritual, Physiological Health and Mood Benefits of Zikr Meditation and Nature for Muslim University Students

Information and Communication Technologies as a Means of Developing Global Planetary Thinking among Students of Non-Humanitarian Specialties

Shaping a Sustainable Future

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