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Life and death education is a distinct field of study that has potential practicality and life relevance for us to consider. For example, one notable inquiry pertaining to life education teaching entails appreciation and theoretical understanding of quality life functioning e.
This framework is intended to provide relevant information that may serve to assist educators, stakeholders, caregivers, etc. We premise that to date, there is no clear consensus or agreement among educators as to what one is expected e. Self well-being, for us, is an alternative nomenclature that may be used in place of subjective well-being. Life 1β3 and death 4β6 education is an interesting subject discipline in the social sciences for teaching and research development.
Broadly speaking, as an introduction, life and death education teaching explores the intimate relationship between life and death. For example, is it plausible that life, death, and the afterlife exist on a continuum? That human agency e. This considered viewpoint, we contend, is novel and innovative given that life education teaching imparts relevant insights that may serve to advance the study of the nature of personal well-being.
We recently published a theoretical-conceptual article, where we detailed the basic philosophy of the nature of life education teaching 8. We contend that the subject context of life education makes its teaching 3 , 10 , 17 , 18 , at times, somewhat philosophical and transpersonal. As an introductory account, the uniqueness of life education, in this case, relates to the teaching and learning of the following tenets:.
