{"product_id":"mindful-education-insights-from-confucian-and-christian-traditions-encounters-between-east-and-west","title":"Mindful Education: Insights from Confucian and Christian Traditions (Encounters between East and West)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mindful Education: Insights from Confucian and Christian Traditions (Encounters between East and West) (Hardcover, 226 pages) – Springer, 2021. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis book provides original ideas and practical recommendations for educators in a post-pandemic world. We live in a world that has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students around the globe have been besieged by disruptions that threaten not only their academic learning but also their mental, emotional, and interpersonal well-being. In the midst of pressing and mounting challenges, how can schools ensure the total wellness of all their students? Beyond reactive, piecemeal, and short-term measures, how can schools enact mindful education that pays attention to wholeness in every student? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending the current research on well-being and mindfulness, this book draws insights from Confucian and Christian traditions. These two traditions have been selected as they are widely seen to represent, and have impacted, Eastern and Western civilisations respectively for millennia. Informed and inspired by Confucian and Christian perspectives, this book proposes that mindfulness is an orientation towards wholeness, where one experiences he (harmony) and shalom (peace). Mindful education is realised through: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA school community of ren (humanity) and agape (love); \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA transforming curriculum that centres on dao (way) and imago dei (god’s image); \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpathic teachers who are motivated by shu (putting oneself in the other’s place) and the Golden Rule (do to others as you would have them do to you); and \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eSelf-directed learners who develop themselves through xiuji (self-cultivation) and spiritual disciplines. \u003cp\u003eApplying ancient wisdom to contemporary settings, this book on promoting student well-being through mindful education is a useful resource for policymakers, educators, researchers, and general readers. \u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   From the Back Cover   \u003cp\u003eThis book provides original ideas and practical recommendations for educators in a post-pandemic world. We live in a world that has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students around the globe have been besieged by disruptions that threaten not only their academic learning but also their mental, emotional, and interpersonal well-being. In the midst of pressing and mounting challenges, how can schools ensure the total wellness of all their students? Beyond reactive, piecemeal, and short-term measures, how can schools enact mindful education that pays attention to wholeness in every student? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending the current research on well-being and mindfulness, this book draws insights from Confucian and Christian traditions. These two traditions have been selected as they are widely seen to represent, and have impacted, Eastern and Western civilisations respectively for millennia. Informed and inspired by Confucian and Christian perspectives, this book proposes that mindfulness is an orientation towards wholeness, where one experiences he (harmony) and shalom (peace). Mindful education is realised through: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA school community of ren (humanity) and agape (love); \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA transforming curriculum that centres on dao (way) and imago dei (god’s image); \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpathic teachers who are motivated by shu (putting oneself in the other’s place) and the Golden Rule (do to others as you would have them do to you); and \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eSelf-directed learners who develop themselves through xiuji (self-cultivation) and spiritual disciplines. \u003cp\u003eApplying ancient wisdom to contemporary settings, this book on promoting student well-being through mindful education is a useful resource for policymakers, educators, researchers, and general readers. \u003c\/p\u003e           About the Author   \u003cp\u003eCharlene Tan, PhD, is a former schoolteacher with more than two decades of teaching experience. 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