Mindful Education

Insights from Confucian and Christian Traditions

Charlene Tan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

197 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-1404-0 (ISBN)

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This book provides original ideas and practical recommendations for educators in a post-pandemic world. We live in a world that has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students around the globe have been besieged by disruptions that threaten not only their academic learning but also their mental, emotional, and interpersonal well-being. In the midst of pressing and mounting challenges, how can schools ensure the total wellness of all their students? Beyond reactive, piecemeal, and short-term measures, how can schools enact mindful education that pays attention to wholeness in every student?

Extending the current research on well-being and mindfulness, this book draws insights from Confucian and Christian traditions. These two traditions have been selected as they are widely seen to represent, and have impacted, Eastern and Western civilisations respectively for millennia. Informed and inspired by Confucian and Christian perspectives, this book proposes that mindfulness is an orientation towards wholeness, where one experiences he (harmony) and shalom (peace). Mindful education is realised through:

A school community of ren (humanity) and agape (love);
A transforming curriculum that centres on dao (way) and imago dei (god’s image);
Empathic teachers who are motivated by shu (putting oneself in the other’s place) and the Golden Rule (do to others as you would have them do to you); and
Self-directed learners who develop themselves through xiuji (self-cultivation) and spiritual disciplines. Applying ancient wisdom to contemporary settings, this book on promoting student well-being through mindful education is a useful resource for policymakers, educators, researchers, and general readers.

Charlene Tan, PhD, is a former schoolteacher with more than two decades of teaching experience. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.

Chapter 1: The Way as the Foundation: Dao and Jesus.- Chapter 2: Love-Centeredness: Ren and Agape.- Chapter 3: Self-Directed Learning: Self-cultivation and Sanctification.- Chapter 4: Community-Driven Engagement: Li and Church.- Chapter 5: Attributes for Teachers: Learner-Centric Approaches of Confucius and Jesus.- Chapter 6: Attributes for Learners: Critical and Creative Thinking Promoted by Confucius and Jesus.- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Implications.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Encounters between East and West
Zusatzinfo	33 Illustrations, color; 10 Illustrations, black and white; XXIX, 197 p. 43 illus., 33 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
Schlagworte	Christianity • Confucianism • Confucius • CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC • Creative thinking • critical thinking • Jesus Christ • Learner-centred education • self-cultivation • Self-directed Learning
ISBN-10	981-16-1404-0 / 9811614040
ISBN-13	978-981-16-1404-0 / 9789811614040
Zustand	Neuware