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The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education /

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students well-being being at the core...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Gibbs, Paul
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Education
Curriculums Courses of study
Education > Curricula
Assessment
Higher education
Education > Philosophy
Educational Philosophy
Curriculum Studies
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57783-8
Summary: This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students well-being being at the core of the university mission. Compassion is examined in this volume as a weaving of diverse cultures and beliefs into a way of recognizing that diversity through a common good offers a way of preparing students and staff for a complex and anxious world. This book provides theoretical and practical d
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIII,238pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319577838
Index Number: LB2300
CLC: G640
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Higher Education: A Compassion Business or Edifying Experience? Paul Gibbs -- Section I Thinking About Compassion and Education -- Compassion in Philosophy and Education, Richard White -- Pursuing the Aim of Compassionate Empathy in Higher Education, Bruce Maxwell -- Creating Conditions for Compassion, Kathryn Waddington -- Section II Expanding Compassionate Perspectives -- Intercultural Compassion in Higher Education, Irena Papadopoulos -- Compassion in Buddhism and Islam: The Liberal Arts and Living a Meaningful Life, Derek Maher -- Compassion in the Conte

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