Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective

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dc.contributor.authorWeijers, Dan M.en_NZ
dc.contributor.editorTonon, Graciela H.en_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-31T02:54:00Z
dc.date.available2020en_NZ
dc.date.available2019-10-31T02:54:00Z
dc.date.issued2020en_NZ
dc.description.abstractBefore academic disciplines were invented, philosophers were teaching their students about the good life. These days, academics from a broad range of disciplines, including philosophy, teach their students about various aspects of well-being or quality of life. This chapter discusses the methods, topics, and perspectives that characterise a philosophical approach to teaching well-being or quality of life, focussing especially on how to create and critique a theory of well-being. While discussing these features of the philosophical approach, key differences with other mainly social scientific approaches to teaching well-being and quality of life will be highlighted. Then the chapter discusses some ideas about how to teach well-being and quality of life in a methodologically informed way, one that enables students to critique the methods used by a range of well-being and quality of life researchers, especially those used by philosophers. The chapter concludes with some suggestions on how to harness the subject matter in a way that creates an engaging undergraduate-level course on well-being and quality of life.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationWeijers, D. M. (2020). Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective. In G. H. Tonon (Ed.), Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains (Vol. 79, pp. 15–42). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21551-4_2en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-21551-4_2en_NZ
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-21550-7en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/13072
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringeren_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfTeaching Quality of Life in Different Domainsen_NZ
dc.rights© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG.This is the author's accepted version. The final publication is available at Springer via dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21551-4_2
dc.titleTeaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspectiveen_NZ
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pubs.place-of-publicationCham, Switzerland
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pubs.user.infoWeijers, Daniel (dweijers@waikato.ac.nz)
pubs.volume79en_NZ
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