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Compassion and Education

Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities

Andrew Peterson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54837-5 (ISBN)

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This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people. Understanding and justifying compassion as a virtue, this book argues that compassion is a virtue central to all human relationships from the familial, to the communal and to the global.

This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people. It provides a careful exploration of what compassion means; how it is relevant to the various relationships among students, teachers, and the wider community; and the particular pedagogical processes that can and might develop compassion. Understanding and justifying compassion as a virtue, this book argues that compassion is a virtue central to all human relationships from the familial, to the communal and to the global. It will be of interest to academics, research and students of education.

Andrew Peterson is Professor of Civic and Moral Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of South Australia. His is co-editor of Civics and Citizenship Education in Australia: Challenges, Practices and International Perspectives and The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice.

Chapter 1. The Virtue of Compassion.- Chapter 2. Emotions at the Heart of Compassion. Chapter 3. Compassionate Acts.- Chapter 4. Compassion and the Self.- Chapter 5. Teaching about and for Compassion: Pedagogical Connections. Chapter 6. Schools as Compassionate Institutions: Teachers, Families and Communities.- Chapter 7. Concluding Thoughts.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	IX, 180 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	Educational Policy • Empathy • Humanity • kindness • virtue
ISBN-10	1-137-54837-1 / 1137548371
ISBN-13	978-1-137-54837-5 / 9781137548375
Zustand	Neuware