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Author: John P. Miller
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2005-07-20
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1483363880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essential principles of timeless learning include attention, contemplation, connection, participation, and responsibility; helping students achieve a sense of purpose; and improving alertness and mental health.
Author: Aostre N. Johnson
Publisher: R&L Education
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1610483154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. It encourages reinvigorating approaches to learning and teaching that can easily be integrated into both public and private K-12 school classrooms, with many ideas also applicable to higher education. It supports an educational system based on the beliefs that heart and spirit are intertwined with mind and intellect, and that inner peace, wisdom, compassion, and conscience can be developed together with academic content and skills.
Author: Mary Renck Jalongo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9400769229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In response to highly publicized incidents of school violence, educators across the United States and in many other nations are seeking effective ways to prevent and modify aggressive and anti-social behaviors in students. One of the major recommendations of the research is that efforts to prevent cruelty need to begin early, during the early childhood years of birth through age eight. The focus of Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood is guiding young children to accept responsibility for and to be kind in their interactions with fellow human beings, animals and the environment. Although humane education is a relatively new concept in the field of early childhood education, professionals in the field are very familiar with many of the related concepts, including: promoting positive interpersonal interactions, teaching children the skills of self-regulation, giving children experience in caring for living things and protecting the environment. This edited volume is an interdisciplinary compendium of professional wisdom gathered from experts in the fields of education, child development, science, psychology, sociology and humane organizations. As the book amply documents, the concept of humane education is powerful, integrative, timely and appropriate in work with young children. Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood shows how it is possible for adults dedicated to the care and education of young children to balance attention to the cognitive and affective realms and, in so doing, to elevate the overall quality of early childhood programs for children, families and communities.
Author: Peter Kaufman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1475836562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Teaching with Compassion offers practical tools and strategies designed to help educators foster a culture of care and compassion. It draws on real life examples and exercises to demonstrate the power and potential of teaching from the heart. Written for both experienced and novice educators alike, this book is sure to provide ongoing inspiration.
Author: Joshua Rosenbaum
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-18
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780578557250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →20 Essential Actions to Educate our Black Boys towards Excellence and Liberation: A Practical Guide to Empower Educators using an African-centered and Buddhist Approach is a holistic approach to education that empowers educators to move beyond both internal and external limitations and find a true means to advance the lives of black boys in America, a group who have consistently not been able to collectively reach their immense potential. 20 Essential Actions to Educate our Black Boys toward Excellence and Liberation requires educators to rethink their approach to education, and actively challenge curriculum and pedagogy that promotes white supremacy and oppression, replace it and facilitate an education that empowers black boys and all children to destroy systems of oppression and develop systems based upon justice, equity, compassion and wisdom-- systems that truly value life. From an African-centered approach, educators are challenged to glean and share profound wisdom that comes out of Africa. An African-centered approach puts African children, their past, present and future, their history and culture, at the center of teaching and learning in order to empower children, especially those of African descent and other oppressed children, to destroy oppressive systems, and create self-determinative lives and communities.From a buddhist approach, specifically Nichiren Buddhism as practiced by Soka Gakkai International, educators are empowered personally, moving beyond a limited intellectual approach to pedagogy, to a whole-being transformative approach. Nichiren Buddhism teaches that in order to truly transform our environment, that which is outside of us, we must first transform from within. Nichiren Buddhism opens up the way for teachers to engage in the profound work of inner transformation and growth, that will not only change their teaching for the better, but also their lives and all lives around them. Nichiren Buddhism teaches that every person has buddha nature, the capability to bring out of their lives, at any given moment, their inherent wisdom, compassion, perseverance, courage-their best selves.
Author: Cristina Rocha
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1136890793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The number of Buddhists in Australia has grown dramatically in recent years. In 2006, Buddhists accounted for 2.1 per cent of Australia's population, almost doubling the 1996 figures, and making it the fastest growing religion in the country. This book analyses the arrival and localisation of Buddhism in Australia in the context of the globalisation of Buddhism. Australia's close geographical proximity to Asia has encouraged an intense flow of people, ideas, practices and commodities from its neighbouring countries, while at the same time allowing the development of the religion to be somewhat different to its growth in other Western countries. The book seeks to explore the Buddhist experience in Australia, looking at the similarities and particularities of this experience in relation to other Western countries. The inception of Buddhism in Australia is investigated, and a voice is provided to people on the ground who have been fundamental in making this process possible. For the first time, academic analysis and practitioners' experience are juxtaposed to show the adaptations and challenges of Buddhism in Australia from above and below. This book is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of Buddhism in the West, globalization of religion, and studies in Asian Religion.
Author: Andrew Peterson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 113754838X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Meng Huat Chau
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-11-26
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 144110934X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →International Perspectives on Education draws on the knowledge and experience of a distinguished team of international educationists, including Howard Gardner and Kristján Kristjánsson. Each chapter can be accessed as a resource on a specific topic, but the chapters are also grouped into three sections to provide an invaluable source of thinking and knowledge from leading thinkers and practitioners in their fields: Perspectives on Education; Supporting the Learning Process; and Teachers and Professional Development. The prevailing view by all contributors is that the learning experience and environment should not only be stimulating and intellectually interesting, but also socially inclusive and fulfilling, with a need to develop learners' potential and personality around a set of good values. All this lies at the heart of quality education, and stimulates a new debate in support of the re-humanisation of education, rather than the de-humanisation that we have seen in recent times with attempts to tie its products and processes more closely with models generated in the world of commerce. This collection reflects the development of education within an international context of trends, good practices and experience. It is aimed at those who have an interest in education as an academic area of study (undergraduate students and lecturers, higher degree students and those involved in, or training for, the teaching profession), and those who are concerned with the management and governance of education.
Author: Sue Erica Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9462094160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TCSE-Smith, blurb (final 9 August 2013) There are 400 million Buddhists in the world. Buddhists in Australia make up 3% of the population. So why have Buddhists had so little to say about educating youth? And, can Buddhism survive in Australia without educating youth? Sue Smith in Buddhist Voices in School answers why Buddhists are reluctant to ‘go public’ on education, and how Buddhism has much to offer the critical area of enhancing the wellbeing of young people. Here she distinguishes spiritual education from religion. Using case studies of Buddhist classes in primary schools Smith shows how a community adapted Buddha-Dharma to fit with contemporary education. The book describes how Social and Emotional Learning, inquiry and experiential approaches to education fit well with the intentions of Buddhism. In these classes students learned to meditate and explored ethics through a lively selection of Jataka tales. Voices from a Buddhist community, state school teachers, parents and also students inform the narrative of this book. It is the students themselves that reveal over time how they have developed calm, focus, kindness, resilience and better ability to make choices through their participation. The author concludes that the principles and techniques used in this program make potent contributions to current pedagogy. This book will be of great value to educators, academics and all those who have interest in Buddhism and who care about how children are educated.
Author: Joy Higgs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-02-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9462091889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For educators, scholars, practitioners and researchers this book offers an opportunity to explore and engage with practice-based education theories and concepts in real life teaching spaces. It is a place to see theory embodied and situated within PBE practices. It is also an opportunity to see how educators and scholars from other disciplines are applying theory to understand teaching and learning in their particular area. This volume provides an opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of practice-based education and broaden and critically appraise their strategies for engaging with practice-based education theory. And, it provides a means of extending theory and realising new practice-based education theory through the lens of exemplary practice. There are three sections in the book: • Section 1: Practice-based education for life and work • Section 2: Practice-based education in action • Section 3: Practice-based education realisations
