Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities

Peterson, Andrew

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 of education. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-12-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137548375

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54838-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 180