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Spirituality, philosophy and education / edited by David Carr and John Haldane.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituality--Study and teaching.
- Spirituality.
- Religious education--Philosophy.
- Religious education.
- Teaching--Religious aspects.
- Teaching.
- Teaching--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Author biographies; Introduction; Philosophy and spirituality; On the very idea of spiritual values; Making spirits attentive: moral-and-spiritual development; Spirituality, science and morality; Spirituality and virtue; Stoic meditations and the shaping of character: the case of educating the military; Aspects of spirituality; Metaphor, cognition and spiritual reality; After philosophy and religion: spirituality and its counterfeits; Images of spirituality: traditional and contemporary; Scholarship and spirituality; Spiritual learning: good for nothing?
- Spirituality and educationSpiritual development and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; Longing to connect: spirituality and public schools; Education, spirituality and the common school; Spirituality, pluralism and the limits of common schooling; Three conceptions of spirituality for spiritual education; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-43459-6
- 1-134-43460-X
- 1-138-00865-6
- 1-280-05125-6
- 0-203-46490-7
- 9780203464908
- OCLC:
- 437084711
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