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Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child Ron Best

Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child By Ron Best

Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child by Ron Best


Summary

Where does the responsibility for the child's development lie in matters of spirituality and self-awareness? This book aims to provide a framework of ideas and perspectives as a basis for development, discussing key issues of spirituality within education.

Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child Summary

Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child by Ron Best

Where does the responsibility for the child's development lie in matters of spirituality and self-awareness? Can issues be defined? Where does spirituality end and religion begin? This book aims to provide a framework of ideas and perspectives as a basis for development, discussing key issues of spirituality within education, providing both practical cases and suggestions, as well as theoretical background to the subject.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Visions and perspectives: education of the whole child; the whole vision of the child; education, spirituality and the whole child. Part 2 Concepts and models: human spirituality - towards an educational rationale; spiritual development, spiritual experience and spiritual education; experience, critical realism and the schooling of spirituality; towards a secular concept of spiritual maturity; childhood spirituality and contemporary developmental psychology; respect for persons - a curricular crisis of identities; the child in relationship - towards a communal model of spirituality; spiritual - personal/social = ? a critical note on an empty category. Part 3 Cases and contexts: spiritual education and public policy 1994-1994; where angels fear to tread - discovering children's spirituality; talking to young children about things spiritual; modern spirituality and the history curriculum; head teacher's perceptions of their role in spiritual education. Part 4 Developments and applications: spiders and eternity - spirituality and the curriculum; helping to restore spiritual values in abused children; learning by life - teaching about loss; developing spiritual, moral and social values through a citizenship programme for primary schools; can the denominational sector offer a paradigm in RE?; school education and the spiritual development of adolescents; the spirit of education - a model for the 21st century.

Additional information

GOR001913297
9780304335343
0304335347
Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child by Ron Best
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1996-04-01
320
N/A
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