Teaching What Matters

Teaching What Matters

Activating Happiness, Kindness, and Altruism

Banno, Steve A., Jr.

Rowman & Littlefield

03/2022

226

Dura

Inglês

9781475860894

15 a 20 dias

513

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teach What Matters

Chapter 2: Redefining Success

Precept #1: In order to live a successful life, we must figure out what it means to get a life.

Precept #2: Money, as a marker of success, buys happiness just not in the ways we think it does.

Precept #3: Keep it real. Develop an inner integrity to live successfully

Precept #4: Creating and committing to meaningful life goals liberate us from the tyranny of passive living.

Chapter 3: Happiness as an Inside Job. Developing emotional courage, befriending difficult emotions, cultivating positive emotions, optimism and an attitude of gratitude.

Precept #5: To be human is to be emotional, so befriend your emotions.

Precept #6: Let positivity reign. Cultivate positivity, positive emotions and optimism.

Chapter 4: It's About Time: Giving Some Intention to Our Attention

Precept #7: Maximize aliveness by examining your relationship with time.

Precept #8: Exploring mindfulness helps to better understand the anatomy of the present and calmness in those moments.

Precept #9: Savor more and improve your relationship with time.

Precept #10: Redefine your relationship with time by rediscovering playfulness and flow.

Chapter 5: The Heart of Altruism: Compassion, Human Goodness, and Helping Others.

Precept #11: The world is not broken. There is another side to human nature. One that is constructive, benevolent, and good.

Precept #12: Heroism is always accessible and able to be chosen. We are all heroes in waiting.

Precept #13: In search of the antecedents of human goodness altruism turns up not only in nature but also in the evolutionary history of animals and humans.

Precept #14: Human nature is full of goodness, altruism, compassion and kindness.

Acknowledgements

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altruism;Social and Emotional Learning;Teaching and learning