The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gibbs, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Assessment.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Curriculum Studies.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

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...