Overview
First volume focusing on compassion in higher education
Examines how the university can reclaim its moral leadership
Develops a pedagogy of compassion in two critical areas: curriculum and assessment
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Thinking About Compassion and Education
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Expanding Compassionate Perspectives
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Compassion Within the Being of a University
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About this book
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 discussions of compassion in higher education, it draws contributors from around the world and offers illustrations of compassion in action through a number of international cases studies..
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education
Editors: Paul Gibbs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57783-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57782-1Published: 21 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86248-4Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57783-8Published: 10 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Curriculum Studies, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation