Full Description
This book is designed to serve as a personal development resource for all who work in schools and have responsibility for the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils. It provides materials for staff development activities and resources for use in classrooms. The first section covers the background, relating to the Every Child Matters agenda; the second section offers practical strategies for implementing the key components of spiritual and moral development as outlined in the first section.
Contents
Part 1 Principles; 1. Educating the whole child; 2. Education, spirituality and morality; 3. Learning for understanding; 4. The school as a spiritual and moral community; Ubuntu: developing the person; 5. Building leadership capacity; 6. Monitoring and Evaluation; Part 2 Practice; This section will identify the key components of spiritual and moral development and offer strategies to support their implementation; 7. Understanding right and wrong; 8. Making moral choices; 9. Relationships and respect; 10. Empathy and compassion; 11. Fairness, equity and inclusion; 12. Tolerance and acceptance; 13. Community and service; 14. Compassion, caring and charity; 15. Beauty and creativity; 16. Reflection, stillness; 17. Joy, celebration; 18. The transcendent, wonder and worship.
