Mindfulness and Learning Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education /

• Main Author: Hyland, Terry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 17
• Subjects: Education.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Church and education.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.; Educational Psychology.; Educational Philosophy.; Religion and 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...

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.