Education Educational Psychology
Cultivating Kindness
An Educator's Guide
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2022
- Category
- Educational Psychology, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Mental Health
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487507329
- Publish Date
- Nov 2022
- List Price
- $80.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487525026
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487536022
- Publish Date
- Aug 2022
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Cultivating Kindness sheds light on just how children and adolescents are kind, especially in school. Grounded in psychological and educational research on kindness and supported with illustrations capturing the voices of public school students, this book enhances our understanding of kindness.
Written with educators in mind, Cultivating Kindness draws from surveys and interviews with more than three thousand children and adolescents. Author John-Tyler Binfet shares perspectives on kindness from the very individuals we hope will embrace kindness. Interwoven among examples from students are findings from peer-reviewed studies on topics exploring the role of joy and stress contagions on fostering or thwarting kindness, the concept of kind discipline, and how to measure kindness in school. This book also includes a kindness checklist to guide educators wishing to implement and foster kindness in their classrooms or schools. In addition to practical scenarios challenging the reader to respond kindly, a repository of kindness resources to support the continued kindness education of readers is also included.
About the author
John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor of education in the Okanagan School of Education at the University of British Columbia.