Education for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

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Ron Best
A&C Black, 2000 M06 1 - 226 pages
Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches.
 

Contents

Where are we going with SMSC?
1
1 Developing SMSC for the school curriculum
13
the social construction of spiritual moral social and cultural education
22
3 Practical ways for developing SMSC across the curriculum
37
uneasy bedfellows?
52
towards a public discourse model of moral education
68
the role of emotional education in raising school achievement and promoting the caring community
80
towards creating a paradigm for discerning the spiritual dimension of education
91
10 Vocational education and SMSC
130
11 For richer? For poorer? For worker? For citizen
143
its relationship to school improvement and the role of religious education
155
13 Developing an understanding of worth
164
a forum for SMSC?
173
15 A collaborative approach to researching teacher work in developing spiritual and moral education
187
16 Reflections on inspections
199
Conclusion
210

8 The contribution of the act of collective worship to spiritual and moral development
106
9 Rediscovering the personal in education
117

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Page 13 - Act, which states that schools are required to provide a balanced and broadly based curriculum which (a) promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society; and (b) prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

About the author (2000)

Ron Best is professor and dean od Education of Roehamption University, London.

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