Mindfulness and Learning

by Hyland, Terry

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In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide employability credentials for people competing for jobs in the global economy. The result is a one-dimensional, economistic and bleakly utilitarian conception of the educational task. In "Mindfulne…

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  • Full title :Mindfulness and Learning / Terry Hyland.

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In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide employability credentials for people competing for jobs in the global economy. The result is a one-dimensional, economistic and bleakly utilitarian conception of the educational task. In "Mindfulness and Learning: Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education", Terry Hyland advances t.

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  • Publication Date:2011.

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  • Description:1 electronic document

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  • oclc:ocn778000435

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