Compassionate Education: A Prolegomena for Radical Schooling

by Khen Lampert

Overview

This book criticizes sharply the way in which schools create, exacerbate and ignore the distress of children, when in fact the place that is supposed to provide a humane response to that very distress. Taking a broad critical and interdisciplinary approach (philosophical, sociological, psychological and educational), the book points out the organizational, psychological and functional difficulties of today's public school, which prevent the adults working there from sensing taking responsibility for and acting to alleviate the distress of children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761826415
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	01/08/2003
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.56(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Khen Lampert is Director, Karev Program for Educational Involvement, Ashdod Region, Israel. He is also a lecturer in European and Buddhist Philosophy, World History, and Post-Colonial Theory, in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Myth of School Violence: The Presence of the Myth; The Problematics of Education's Objectives Chapter 4 The Postmodern Challenge: Postmodernism and Neomodernism; Schooling in Neocapitalism Chapter 5 Generative Mentoring: Mentoring: The Generation of Self-Image; Conditions for Actualization Chapter 6 The Idea of Radical Compassion: Compassion; Radical Compassion Chapter 7 Alternative Schooling: The Possibility of a Paradigm Shift; Mentoring as an Archimedean Point Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Index