Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual CurriculumState University of New York Press, 1999 M10 21 - 180 pages Education and the Soul is the first book to comprehensively address how the soul can be nourished in educational settings. The book explores the nature of the soul and offers teaching/learning approaches that can be used to nurture the development of students' souls. It also examines how institutions such as schools have souls and what can be done to care for a school's spiritual life. |
Contents
Conceptions of the Soul | 13 |
Love and Work | 31 |
Curriculum for the Inner Life | 49 |
Arts Education and the Soul | 75 |
Earth and the Soul | 93 |
The Soulful School | 109 |
Change and the Soul | 139 |
References | 153 |
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