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Running head: DEEPENING AWARENESS 1
DEEPENING AWARENESS: THE INTEGRATION OF MINDFULNESS PRACTICES IN
UNITED STATES HIGH SCHOOLS
by
Michael G. McAlister
A Dissertation of Practice Presented to the
FACUTLY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2018
Copyright 2018 Michael G. McAlister
Object Description
| Title | Deepening awareness: the integration of mindfulness practices in United States high schools |
| Author | McAlister, Michael Glenn |
| Author email | michael.mcalister@usc.edu;michaelgmcalister@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Global Executive |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2018-05-10 |
| Date submitted | 2018-06-05 |
| Date approved | 2018-06-05 |
| Restricted until | 2018-06-05 |
| Date published | 2018-06-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Krop, Cathy Sloane |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Picus, Lawrence O. Datta, Monique Claire |
| Abstract | Mindfulness practices build an attentive awareness of the present moment and appear to support the kind of well-being school communities seek to cultivate. Currently there are increases in demands for the services offered by crisis counselors, who work to serve students’ emotional needs. Students are increasingly reporting levels of chronic sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. This is reflected nationally with high school students around the country reporting increased incidents of stress and depression. This issue represents larger educational problems, which correlate increased stress levels and ineffective teaching of coping skills with more serious problems such as increased risk of teen suicide. The problem of practice addressed by this dissertation is how schools might best integrate mindfulness practices, the learned attentive awareness of the present moment, into this void and evaluate whether this approach to increasing students’ ability to pay attention to their immediate experience, helps mitigate the problems affiliated with increased levels of stress. |
| Keyword | mindfulness; students; adolescents; stress; depression; suicide; high school; violence; mental health; wellness; well-being; teacher training; teacher wellness; professional development; culture; peace; empathy; student achievement; social emotional learning; intervention; coping mechanization; counseling; attention; awareness |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | McAlister, Michael Glenn |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-McAlisterM-6329.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume34/etd-McAlisterM-6329.pdf |
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| Full text | Running head: DEEPENING AWARENESS 1 DEEPENING AWARENESS: THE INTEGRATION OF MINDFULNESS PRACTICES IN UNITED STATES HIGH SCHOOLS by Michael G. McAlister A Dissertation of Practice Presented to the FACUTLY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2018 Copyright 2018 Michael G. McAlister |
