Full Description
The possibilities and importance of a spiritual dimension to education are subjects receiving increased consideration from educational practitioners, policymakers and philosophers. Spirituality, Philosophy and Education brings together contributions to the debate by a team of renowned philosophers of education. They bring to this subject a depth of scholarly and philosophical sophistication that was previously missing, and between them offer a wide-ranging exploration and analysis of what spiritual values have to offer contemporary education.
The contributors address such subjects as what we mean by 'spiritual values'; scholarship and spirituality; spirituality and virtue; spirituality, science and morality; the shaping of character; the value of spiritual learning; spiritual development and the curriculum and many others. All students of the philosophy of education and anyone interested in how spiritual values might play a part in informing education policy and practice will find this stimulating collection a rich source of ideas and a major addition to the thinking on the meaning, role and possibilities of spirituality in education.
Contents
Introduction D. Carr & J. Haldane Part 1: Philosophy and spirituality 1. The very idea of spiritual values J. Haldane 2. Making spirits attentive: Moral and spiritual development M. McGhee 3. Spirituality, science and morality J. Cottingham 4. Spirituality and virtue 5. Spirituality, Stoic meditations and the shaping of character Part 2: Aspects of spirituality 6. Metaphor, cognition and spirituality reality M. Halstead 7. For spirit and against spirituality J. Dunne 8. Images of spirituality: Traditional and contemporary I. Yob 9. Scholarship and spirituality J. Sullivan 10. Spiritual learning: Good for nothing? J. Astley Part 3: Spirituality and education 11. Spiritual development and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority J. Keast 12. Longing to connect: Spirituality in public schools D. Vokey 13. Education in spirituality and the common school T. McLaughlin 14. Spiritual development, pluralism and the limits of common schooling K. Mott-Thornton 15. Three conceptions of spirituality for spiritual education D. Carr
