In its role of contributing to the field of Vedic knowledge, MVRI Press publishes books on all areas of science and humanities, examining theoretical frameworks, research, and technology in all fields of knowledge—understood from the perspective of exploration, research, and also the documentation of the history and effects, of Maharishi Vedic Science and its applications.
Published volumes:
Life-Oriented Education: A 30-Year Empirical Research Program in Cambodia (2022)
Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek, Muon Veasna, Hun Monivann and Huy Sambo
Message: Dr John Fagan, Chairman and Chief Scientist at Health Research Institute and Professor of Microbiology, Maharishi International University
Foreword: His Excellency and Honourable Dr Ung Huot, Former First Prime Minister of the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia
MVRI Press
Paperback. 295 pages with charts, photographs, tables and illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-6489102-2-0
https://doi.org/10.66743/cjma8144
“In this book we present nine published research studies associated with Maharishi Vedic University (MVU) in Cambodia. These studies, which utilise established quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs and techniques, collectively form part of a 30-year research program initiated by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1991 and carried out by ten educational researchers based in Australia, Cambodia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States.
This initiative was part of a larger and more extensive 50-year research program conducted throughout the world by a network of educators, psychologists, physiologists, biochemists, neuroscientists, and sociologists engaged in basic and applied research at some of the world’s leading research facilities and educational institutions.
We use the term ‘research program’ in this context to mean the sustained exploration of a ‘framework’ (in this case, Vedic Science-based education) for accumulating detailed data by means of multiple studies according to a broad ‘theory’ (in this case, Maharishi Vedic Science). In this sense, our effort was not normative; the studies in the book are exploratory and explanatory in nature not confirmatory. However, our program did test certain propositions and independently explored them in the broader context of research conducted since the 1970s across a wide range of educational, organisational, and clinical settings.
With support from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) of the Royal Government of Cambodia, using both primary and secondary data sources, this research effort began with Maharishi Vedic University in the Netherlands in 1991 when Maharishi specifically identified Cambodia as a candidate for his international social welfare programs, and subsequently expanded to include research projects at seven urban and regional institutions of higher learning: Maharishi Vedic University; Institute of Economic Science (IES, now the National Institute of Management); Phnom Penh University (PPU, now the Royal University of Phnom Penh); University of Management and Economics (UME); Cambodian University of Specialties (CUS); and Chea Sim University at Kamcheymear (CSUK).
The research effort utilised descriptive, cross-sectional, and quasi-experimental research designs, case studies, and case histories of undergraduate students and university faculty and staff measuring variables as diverse as nonverbal intelligence, anxiety, depression, mental and physical health, and learning ability in individuals, and higher-level social variables such as crime, socio-political violence, crime, consumer price index, gross domestic product (GDP), tourism, and social health and education rates to investigate Cambodian society as a whole. Thus, the nine studies presented in this book traverse investigation at both the individual as well as the collective levels of Cambodian life and cover the period from independence in 1953 to the present day. Such an initiative is predicated on several basic principles and propositions of Maharishi Vedic Science as they have been applied through Vedic Science-based education.
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