Buddhist Voices in School: How a Community Created a Buddhist Education Program for State Schools -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: Buddhist Voices -- PART 1: GATHERING VOICES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: BUDDHISM IN AUSTRALIA -- AUSTRALIAN BUDDHISTS TODAY -- CHAPTER 2: SEEKING BUDDHIST EDUCATION: Global Positions -- On the margins -- Developing an inclusive curriculum -- Religion in public discourse -- Mindfulness in the Human sciences -- Shifting to secular -- CHAPTER 3: DHARMA: Describing the Way the World Works -- Dharma -- Knowing Gautama -- Bowing to the Buddha - Formal Buddhist practice -- Noble pursuits -- Karma -- Marking existence -- Dependent origination -- Merging paradigms: Dharma and logos -- Developing the educated person -- CHAPTER 4: FINDING PLACES IN A CHANGING EDUCATION LANDSCAPE: Australian Values -- Education in Victoria -- An Australian curriculum -- PART 2: LISTENING TO MANY VOICES -- CHAPTER 5: INTERPRETING BUDDHISM AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- Hermeneutics - Understanding Buddha in the human sciences -- CHAPTER 6: TELLING TALES -- A great life and an epic story -- Student involvement: Strategies and some effects -- Monkeys and metaphors: Textual interpretation -- Jataka tales -- CHAPTER 7: MEDITATING (WITH MINDFUL MOTIVATION) -- So what is meditation? -- Mantra and visuali ation -- Not mentioning the B word -- Mindfulness -- Mindfulness as a path -- Landmark researches in meditation -- Some cautions about meditation -- CHAPTER 8: APPROACHING MEDITATION IN A BUDDHIST R.I. CLASS -- The Happiness Scale: A meditation-effect measurement tool for children -- Values, meditation and happiness -- The Four Immeasurables -- CHAPTER 9: CHILDREN MEDITATING -- Making meaning from the Happiness scale entries -- Awareness and Perceptual shifts -- Physical awareness -- Shifting from physical to mental awareness.

Feeling calm, relaxed … and tired -- Mental clarity -- Mental focus -- Dealing with distractions -- Stresses and worries -- Unhappy children -- Emotional regulation -- New insights -- Impacts beyond the classroom -- Broadening the scope of reflection -- Reflection and thinking processes in Australian schools -- CHAPTER 10: STORIES OF LIVES: Morality, Meaning-Making and More Monkeys -- Language and stories -- Stories and moral imagination -- Real or fantastic -- Life and consequences -- Stories known to Buddhist children -- CHAPTER 11: EXPLORING HOW THE WORLD WORKS: Acts of Kindness -- Children from Buddhist families -- The Wheel of Life -- CHAPTER 12: BUDDHISM AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION -- Dharma, spirituality and education -- APPENDIX 1: OTHER STORIES -- APPENDIX 2: THE BUFFALO AND THE MONKEY (ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT) -- APPENDIX 3 THE DRUMMER (TRANSCRIPT) -- REFERENCES.