Author : Andrew Peterson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Release : 2016-12-16
ISBN-13 : 9781137548375
Page : 180 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 from 375 voters
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.