Contentment and education
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Gibbs, P. 2016. Contentment and education. Journal of East-West Thought. 6 (2), pp. 23-34.
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | Contentment and education |
| Authors | Gibbs, P. |
| Abstract | Current higher education strategies seem to concentrate on the expedient, developing skills that can secure employment in the world of work. Valuable as this may be as a way to satisfy politico-economic policy imperatives, it strays from education as an edifying process where personal development represents, through the facing up to distress and despair, an unsettling of our developing identity and a negation of our immediate desire satisfaction. What is proposed for higher education is not a dominant priority to feed happiness for others, but a mission for personal contentment revealed through realising students’ potentialities, for them, thus recognising their limitations as part of seeking an attunement to contentment |
| Publisher | International Association for East-West Studies |
| Journal | Journal of East-West Thought |
| ISSN | 2161-7236 |
| Publication dates | |
| 01 Jun 2016 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 15 Jun 2015 |
| Submitted | 2015 |
| Accepted | 11 Jun 2015 |
| Output status | Published |
| Copyright Statement | Access to full text restricted pending copyright check. |
| Language | English |
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