Lhamo, Jambay

Miller, Judith

Wolodko, Brenda

Morgan, Anne-Marie

2020-12-08

There is a growing interest in research on the role of compassion in the fields of positive psychology and social psychology. Compassion in the educational setting is focused on well-being and relationship-based approaches to support students to flourish academically, emotionally and socially. This paper is a review of compassion in the literature and provides a foreground of future research on compassion in the Bhutanese classroom. It also presents a discussion on compassion in relation to benefits for self and others, compassion fatigue and self-compassion. More importantly, this paper provides a deeper understanding of the role of compassion in education in building the teaching-learning process and foregrounds the need for further investigation into compassionate teaching and learning for a range of school-based curriculum subjects.

Bhutan Journal of Research and Development, 9(2), p. 18-42

2789-5254

2072-9065

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30039

en

Royal University of Bhutan

Compassion in the Bhutanese Gross National Happiness (GNH) Infused Classrooms

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