Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child

by Ron Best (Editor)

There has always been much discussion and debate among teachers, policy-makers and politicians as to where lies the responsibility for the child's spiritual and self-development, no more so than in the present climate. Can these issues be defined? Where does spirituality end and religion begin? Where does morality fit into the complex matrix of issues?
Ron Best has brought together a group of influential and interesting contributors to provide a framework of ideas and perspectives and to offer thoughts for development. Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child is in four sections, the first of which, Visions and Perspectives, sets the broad themes. The following three sections develop those themes and provide both theoretical discussion and practical cases and examples. The book as a whole is wide-ranging, critical and thought-provoking, shedding light on this vitally important and much-neglected field.

354 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1996