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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.
A practical guide to understanding and fostering kindness, this book aims to transform the thinking and practice of educators as they seek to cultivate kind classrooms.
- Imprint: University of Toronto Press
- Published: August 2022
- Pages: 248
John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor of education in the Okanagan School of Education at the University of British Columbia.
"Cultivating Kindness is a unique research-based resource focused on kindness, its varieties, and their development over time. The book is relevant to scientists interested in kindness, and educators who wish to cultivate it in children and youth. I highly recommend it."
Robert Roeser, Bennett Pierce Professor of Care and Compassion , Penn State University
"In this compelling and inspiring guide, John-Tyler Binfet draws upon an extensive body of research and practice to provide educators with an accessible guide to the what, how, and why of cultivating kindness. The text is brought to life through the many handwritten and pictorial depictions of kindness provided by the children in Binfet’s own research studies, perfectly illustrating just how kindness can and should be incorporated into the growing field of work on social and emotional learning in educational settings."
Robin Banerjee, Head of the School of Psychology and Founder of Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness, University of Sussex