Pedagogies of Compassion and Care in Education

Pedagogies of Compassion and Care in Education

Mindith R. Rahmat (Antioch College, USA) and Amy Osborne (Antioch College, USA)
Release Date: December, 2024|Copyright: © 2025 |Pages: 568
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3613-7
ISBN13: 9798369336137|ISBN13 Softcover: 9798369350263|EISBN13: 9798369336144
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Educators worldwide grapple with fostering meaningful connections in increasingly digital and fast-paced learning environments. The rapid evolution of technology presents unique challenges, often distancing teachers from students and inhibiting empathetic engagement. Pedagogies of Compassion and Care in Education provides a holistic solution to this pressing issue. This groundbreaking book comprehensively environments. Drawing on education, psychology, and counseling research, it equips educators with practical strategies to transform their teaching methods.

The book is a vital resource for educators seeking to integrate compassion and care into their teaching practices. This book offers a roadmap for fostering supportive and nurturing learning environments in a world characterized by rapid change, technological advancements, and heightened socio-emotional challenges. It invites contributions from educators, researchers, and practitioners across all levels of education, encouraging a diverse range of perspectives. By showcasing theoretical insights and practical approaches, including case studies and empirical research, the book empowers educators to implement innovative pedagogies of care in their classrooms.

Pedagogies of Compassion and Care in Education is a curated collection of innovative and thought-provoking chapters that delve into various dimensions of compassionate teaching practices. It addresses key themes such as theoretical foundations, evidence-based practices, inclusivity, diversity, teacher-student relationships, technology integration, and overcoming challenges. This book is an essential companion for educators, school administrators, policymakers, researchers, academics, and scholars interested in promoting student well-being through pedagogies of care, offering actionable strategies and evidence-based insights to transform educational practices.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Compassionate Pedagogies
  • Cooperative/Collaborative Pedagogies
  • Critical Pedagogies
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
  • Empathy-Focused Pedagogies
  • Engaged Pedagogies
  • Experiential Pedagogies
  • Growth Mindset Pedagogies
  • Holistic Pedagogies
  • Metacognitive Pedagogies
  • Mindfulness and Self-Care Pedagogies
  • Reflective Practice Pedagogies
  • Restorative Justice Pedagogies
  • Social-Emotional Integrated Pedagogies
  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
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Mindith Rahmat’s teaching style is inclusive, compassionate, intentional, and joyful. She strives to center online and in-person classroom engagement on the lived realities of learners, co-creating learning conditions by working alongside learners and supporting them in revealing their potential through equitable, affirmative, and accessible learning. Dr. Rahmat teaches through the lens of compassion-focused pedagogy (CFP), a relational approach to learning, fostering well-being, resilience, and flourishing. She has specialized training in trauma-informed organizational systems, advanced trauma-sensitive mindfulness, yoga therapy, mindfulness, and compassion-based psychotherapeutic interventions and self-compassion in psychotherapy through the Center for Mindful-Self Compassion and the Cambridge Health Alliance, affiliated with the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. She is a certified trauma-sensitive mindfulness (TSM) teacher, mindful self-compassion (MSC) teacher, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR-T) teacher for teens and young adults, and certified yoga teacher. Professional Interests Dr. Rahmat’s professional and research interests focus on compassion-based pedagogy, professional development, programs, initiatives, and therapy to promote well-being. Her doctoral research, Compassion-Based Professional Development for Educator Well-Being, focused on developing a school-based professional development program for promoting educator well-being. Dr. Rahmat’s current research agenda includes a mixed methods project implementing a compassion-based professional development program to support educator well-being in a primary school. Among her current research priorities is a project under the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Great Lakes Liberal Arts Alliance, focused on faculty-led experiential research on community well-being in a multi-sectarian community-based mindfulness center. Dr. Rahmat is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Antioch College and an adjunct professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. Dr. Rahmat is the founder of a successful health and fitness startup, Breaking Muscle, and has worked as a certified yoga, mindfulness, and meditation instructor for over twenty-five years. She earned her doctorate from Alliant International University and also holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Marshall University. She is currently writing a book about compassion-focused pedagogy for social-emotional learning.

Amy Osborne is currently affiliated with Antioch College.

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