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...