The Pedagogy Of Compassion At The Heart Of Higher Education

by Paul Gibbs

2021-01-08 18:51:41

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 n... Read more

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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File size9.25 X 6.1 X 0 in
Print pages238
PublisherSpringer-Verlag/Sci-Tech/Trade
Publication date July 21, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9783319577821

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