基本説明
It covers all key areas, including problems of defining spirituality, contemporary approaches to spiritual education, including school ethos, collective worship and cross-curricular teaching, etc.
Full Description
Spirituality and Education introduces the basic contours of current debate in a form accessible to both classroom teachers across the curriculum range, and to school managers. It covers all key areas, including:
* problems of defining spirituality
* government legislation and supporting documentation
* relevant empirical research
* the social dimension of spirituality
* secular and religious manifestations of spirituality in contemporary society
* theories of childhood spiritual development
* contemporary approaches to spiritual education, including collective worship and cross-curricular teaching.
A variety of different perspectives and approaches will be offered, and readers are encouraged to be reflective through a number of tasks which relate all issues raised directly back to their own specific circumstances. The author includes questions, quotes and lists of further reading.
Contents
Introduction; Part 1 The Landscape of Spirituality; Chapter 1 What is Spirituality?; Chapter 2 Philosophical Perspectives; Chapter 3 Spirituality and Religion; Chapter 4 The Psychology of Spiritual Experience; Chapter 5 The Social Dimension of Spirituality; Part 2 Contemporary Spiritual Education; Chapter 6 Historical Development; Chapter 7 Inclusive and Exclusive Approaches; Chapter 8 Beyond the Inclusive/Exclusive Impasse?; Part 3 Towards a Critical Spiritual Education; Chapter 9 Principles of Critical Spiritual Education; Chapter 10 An Agenda for Critical Spiritual Education; Chapter 11 Spiritual Education as Nurture; Chapter 12 Spiritual Education as Critique; Chapter 13 Conclusion;
