Compassion and Education [electronic resource] : Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities /
Peterson, Andrew.author.
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. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. .
Educational psychology.
Education-Psychology.
Educational sociology.
Child development.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational Psychology.
Sociology of Education.
Early Childhood Education.
Sociology of Education.