The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education

The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education edited by Paul Gibbs.

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 cor...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gibbs, Paul (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Higher education.
Education—Philosophy.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education—Curricula.
Assessment.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of 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 Context of Higher Education in South Africa, Labby Ramrathan
  • Confucian, Compassion (Ren) and Higher Education: A Perspective from the Analects of Confucius, Ka-wai Tong
  • Compassion in Islam, Abdullah Sahin
  • Section III Compassion within the Being of a University
  • On Becoming a Campus of Compassion, Nancy Billas
  • Learning About Consequences Community Creativity and Courage: Cultivating Compassion in Higher Education Leadership, Marilee Bresciani Ludvik
  • In Search of Critical Strategic Pedagogies of Compassion: Integrating Pity and Sentimentality in Higher Education, Michalinos Zembylas
  • When Looking is Allowed: What Compassionate Group Work Looks Like in a UK University, Theo Gilbert
  • The Reflective Paradigm in Higher Education and Research: Compassion in Communities of Learning, Mary Koutselini
  • All Together Now? Jacqui Boddington, with a experiential account by Sandip K. Gill and Alina Ursuleanu
  • CODA, Paul Gibbs.

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