Ricerca FRIENDS
Ricerca del progetto FRIENDS pubblicata nel giornale:
European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research
Siamo entusiasti di annunciare la pubblicazione di uno studio di ricerca innovativo sull’European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research nel marzo 2023.
Questo studio indaga l’implementazione del programma Quiet Time con la Meditazione Trascendentale (QT/TM) in un contesto di scuola primaria. La ricerca mira a testare l’efficacia del QT/TM nel promuovere punti di forza e resilienza nei bambini. Lo studio ha coinvolto 92 studenti delle classi quarte e quinte, a cui è stato assegnato l’intervento QT/TM o una condizione in lista d’attesa.
I risultati hanno mostrato che i bambini nel gruppo di intervento QT/TM hanno mostrato meno difficoltà emotive e comportamentali rispetto a quelli nel gruppo in lista d’attesa, indicando un effetto complessivamente positivo del QT/TM sui punti di forza e sul benessere emotivo dei bambini. I partecipanti hanno apprezzato la pratica della Meditazione Trascendentale in ambito scolastico.
Clicca qui sotto per leggere l’articolo completo della ricerca per ulteriori approfondimenti.
Volume 6, numero 1, 1 – 9
Quiet Time – Un programma scolastico basato sulla meditazione per promuovere il benessere dei bambini: risultati di un’indagine controllata
Chiara Ruini
, Francesca Vescovelli
, Maria Facchini
, Rossano Maset
Abstract
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Quiet Time /TM Implementation coordinators contacts:
- For UK: Richard Johnson – richard.johnson@maharishifoundation.org.uk
- For Portugal: Paulo Cortereal – corte_real@live.com.pt
- For Belgium: Claudio Scubla – claudio.scubla@gmail.com
- For Italy: Rossano Maset – rossanomaset@gmail.com
- For other countries: Mirta Castellaro – mirtacastellaro@yahoo.com
About the project
FRIENDS: Fostering Resilience-Inclusive Education & Non-Discrimination in Schools is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme under the Key Action 3 Support for policy reforms – Social inclusion through education, training and youth.
Partners
The project partnership holds together:
- Coordinator: Fondazione Hallgarten Franchetti – Centro Studi Villa Montesca (Italy)
- Universidade do Algarve(Portugal)
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – Università di Bologna(Italy)
- CESIE (Italy)
- Escola Secundária de Loulé(Portugal)
- Municipality of Sacile – Pordenone(Italy)
- Maharishi School Trust Limited(United Kingdom)
- Maharishi Foundation(United Kingdom)
- APEJAA – Associacao de Pais e Encarregados de Educação da Escola Joao Afonsode Aveiro(Portugal)
- Cooperativa Cultural Ciencia e Tecnologia Vedica Maharishi – CCCT(Portugal)
- Associazione Meditazione Trascendentale Maharishi Italia(Italy)
- Civic Association for Communication and Education “Sophia”- ACCESOPHIA (Spain)
- Maharishi Institute of Vedic Science(Belgium)
