Three reasons why teachers should learn to meditate and it’s not (just) about wellbeing

There is growing evidence that mindfulness-based training programs may support teacher wellbeing and resilience. This clearly sounds like a good idea, in the current context of alarmingly high rates of teacher stress and burnout.

However, as critics have pointed out, a narrow focus on using mindfulness to address teacher burnout could potentially obscure the systemic and structural causes of stress in the teacher workforce.

These causes include excessive workload, increasingly complex and diverse classrooms, insecure employment and ongoing inequities in both funding and student outcomes.

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