Mindfulness and Learning Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education
In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provid...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2011, 2011
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Lifelong Learning Book Series
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- List of Acronyms
- About the Author.- Editorial by Series Editors
- Preface
- 1. The Therapeutic Turn in Education
- 2. Education and Therapy
- 3. The Nature of Mindfulness
- 4. The Practice of Mindfulness
- 5. Applications of Mindfulness
- 6. The Education of the Emotions
- 7. The Affective Domain of Education
- 8. Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
- 9. From School to Lifelong Learning
- 10. Vocational Education and Training
- 11. Professionalism, Research and Teaching
- 12. Mindfulness, Morals and the Aims of Education
- General References
- Index