The pedagogy of compassion at the heart of higher education / Paul Gibbs, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbs, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compassion--Philosophy--Education (Higher).

Compassion.

Transformative learning--Education (Higher).

Transformative learning.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Education, Higher.

Compassion--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 238 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

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 the 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 case studies.

Contents:

Higher education: a compassion business or edifying experience?

Part I. Thinking about compassion and education

Compassion in philosophy and education

Pursusing the aim of compassionate empathy in higher education

Creating conditions for compassion

Part II. Expanding compassionate perspectives

Intercultural compassion in higher education

Compassion in Buddhism and Islam: the liberal arts and living a meaningful life

Compassion in the context of higher education transformation in South Africa

Confucianism, compassion (Ren) and higher education: a perspective from the Analects of Confucius

Education as compassionate transformation: The ethical heart of Islamic pedagogy

Part III. Compassion within the being of a university

On becoming a campus of compassion

Learning about consequences, community, creativity and courage: cultivating compassion in higher education leadership

In search of critical and strategic pedagogies of compassion: interrogating pity and sentimentality in higher education

When looking is allowed: what compassionate group work looks like in a UK university

The reflective paradigm in higher education and research: compassion in communities of learning

All together now?

Compassion and the student experience

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319577821

3319577824

OCLC:

981118085