TY - BOOK AU - Peterson,Andrew TI - Compassion and education: cultivating compassionate children, schools and communities SN - 9781137548375 AV - LB 1139.35.M67 P48.2017 PY - 2017///, CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Moral education (Early childhood) KW - Educación moral KW - Developmental psychology KW - Psicología del desarrollo N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e indice; The Virtue of Compassion -- Emotions at the Heart of Compassion -- Compassionate Acts -- Compassion and the Self -- Teaching about and for Compassion : Pedagogical Connections -- Schools as Compassionate Institutions : Teachers, Families and Communities -- Concluding Thoughts N2 - 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 ER -