Spirituality and Education

Description

This book introduces the basic contours of debate in a form accessible to both classroom teachers across the curriculum range, and to school managers. It covers areas such as problems of defining spirituality, government legislation and supporting documentation, relevant empirical research, the social dimension of spirituality, and secular and religious manifestations of spirituality in contemporary society. It also includes theories of childhood spiritual development and contemporary approaches to spiritual education, including collective worship and cross-curricular teaching. 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.

"The book succeeds admirably in providing readers with an overview of the contemporary debate about spiritual education...This book is bound to stimulate vigorous argumetn among advocates and critics of the various schools of thought on spiritual education; but it also offers a constructive contribution that should serve well students from all sectors of the community...Atheists and religious fundamentalists, progressives and traditionalists, liberals and post-modernists...will all find something here to engage and also to provoke them...Wright offers an extremely valuable counter-culture and cerebral experience...It makes a major contribution ot the field and can be recommended without hesitation to all those interested in spirituality and education. John."-Sullivan