Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl is a Professor in the Human
Development, Learning, and Culture program in the Faculty of
Education at the University or British Columbia (UBC) and Director
of the Human Early Learning Partnership, an interdisciplinary
research institute in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. She received
her MA in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago,
her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa,
and was a postdoctoral National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence at
the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Prior to her
graduate work, Kim was a middle school teacher and a teacher at an
alternative high school for “at risk” adolescents. Kim studies the
social and emotional development of children and adolescents,
particularly in relation to identifying the processes and
mechanisms that foster positive human qualities such as empathy,
compassion, altruism, andresiliency. She has won several awards,
including the 2015 Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Research in Social and Emotional
Learning, given by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the Confederation of University
Faculty Associations’ (CUFA-BC) Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement
Award for sustained contributions over the course of a career to
the non-academic community through research and scholarly
activity.
Robert W. Roeser is a Professor of Psychology and Human
Development in the Department of Psychology at Portland State
University in Portland, Oregon. He received his Ph.D. from the
Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the University of
Michigan (1996) and holds master's degrees in religion and
psychology, developmental psychology and clinical social work. In
2005 he was a United States Fulbright Scholar in India; from
1999-2004 he was a William T. Grant Faculty Scholar; and from 2006
to 2010 served as the Senior Program Coordinator for the Mind and
Life Institute (Boulder, CO). Currently, Dr. Roeser's Culture and
Contemplation in Education Lab (CaCiEL) at Portland State is
devoted to the study of the putative effects of mindfulness and
compassion training for teachers and (early childhood and early
adolescent) students with regard to health and wellbeing, and the
optimization of teaching and learning.
urce for anyone interested in the current field of how mindfulness practice and MBI can be integrated into school settings. ... This handbook has consolidated a great deal of the existing work that has been conducted to date, and it offers a welcome addition to the growing literature on how mindfulness practice and contemplative science can be best used to the benefit of students and those who work in educational settings." (Joshua C. Felver, Mindfulness, Vol. 7, 2016)
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