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Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities
Andrew Peterson
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Description for Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities
Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNC; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137548375
SKU
V9781137548375
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Ref
99-15
About Andrew Peterson
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.
Reviews for Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities
The theoretical section of this book offers a very careful and helpful analysis of one of the virtues we ought to be seeking to develop in students. ... Peterson's arguments are sound, and would prove very useful for anyone seeking to construct a program that aimed, among the other virtues, at strengthening children's compassion. (Tim Sprod, childhood & philosophy, ... Read more