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Emotions: Philosophy of Education in Practice
By (Author) Liz Jackson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
22nd August 2024
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
370.1
Paperback
136
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Schools and other forms of education and have significant impacts on peoples views about emotions and emotional experiences. This book helps students and educators to better understand emotions and their significance in social life and in education. It shows how we often take it for granted that certain emotions, such as happiness, are positive, while others are negative and how personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, and race, can make an unfair difference when it comes to what emotions are expected or accepted. It also focuses on how emotions are understood as functional and as moral by different theoretical traditions, from psychology to philosophy. Written in an accessible format, the book encourages broad reflection on what emotions are and why they matter, in relation to the aims of education, what it means to be a good person, and equality and social justice.
Liz Jackson is Professor of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She is the immediate past president of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and the former director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020) and Founder of the ViEW Platform (Virtues in Education East and West).