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Education as a Force for Social Change

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 0880108517
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Education as a Force for Social Change written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These dazzling, radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School--following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself. Well aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life--such as psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and a growing cynicism--Steiner recognized that any solution must address not only economic and legal issues but also that of a free spiritual life. Steiner also saw the need to properly nurture in children the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love at the appropriate stages of development in order to create mature adults who are inwardly prepared to fulfill the demands of a truly healthy society--adults who are able to assume the responsibilities of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. Relating these themes to an understanding of the human as a threefold being of thought, feeling, and volition, and against the background of historical forces at work in human consciousness, Steiner lays the ground for a profound revolution in the ways we think about education. Also included here are three lectures on the social basis of education, a lecture to public school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company, after which they asked him to form a school for their children. German sources: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage (GA 296); lectures 4, 5, and 6, the "Volkspädagogik" lectures in Geisteswissenschaftliche Behandlung sozialer und pädagogischer Fragen (GA 192); lectures 2 and 11, Neugestaltung des sozialen Organismus (GA 330-331).

Spiritual Education and Social Change

Author : Codrin Tapu
Publisher : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3659529990
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Education and Social Change written by Codrin Tapu and published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have witnessed an increasing interest in a global ethic, which proposes general guidelines of behavior applicable to all cultures, and amends those spiritual interpretations and educational practices that are detrimental to personal and collective wellbeing. These lecture notes are an educational resource for spiritual education, moral education, and counselling, for secondary and university levels, as well as for adult education and teacher training, all within a worldwide, multicultural framework. Drawing from the ethical and spiritual treasure of humanity, the book should help readers realize that the most idealistic and humanistic of moral codes is also the most pragmatic and profitable for each individual who lives by it.

Spirituality, Education & Society

Author : Njoki N. Wane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460916031
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality, Education & Society written by Njoki N. Wane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality, education and society: An integrated approach argues the value of spirituality in education as a way to address the lived experiences and personal knowledge of students, with the goal of creating a more holistic, transformative educational process. This edited volume has a wide array of viewpoints which all point to the importance of spirituality in the authors’ personal lives, their communities and society at large. Spirituality is conceptualised as a base from which to challenge dominant forms of knowing, while in the process being able to center and engage with an important aspect of the student that has been missing from current evaluations – their spiritual selves.Within the diversity of this volume it becomes evident that spirituality cannot be confined to a singular definition and that educators must be willing to create spaces to foster spiritual growth and exploration if we are to break away from the commoditized, disempowering system that is so dominant today. This edited collection is a valuable resource for students, practitioners, educators and administrators who wish to engage in transformational schooling. Its multidisciplinary approach engages ideas around critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and inclusive schooling. There is an increasing need for exploring novel paradigms of studying education in the context of the dynamics that straddle social, economic and technological processes that have come to characterize the world in recent years. This book is a timely contribution in this respect as its focus transcends hitherto applied approaches that depend largely on western orientation. The book breaks new grounds in studying education and society that find significant relevance in societies that are marginalized by the dominant western understanding. The authors draw from the rich heritage of spirituality that is akin to the non-western social paradigms to develop a rigorous but creative concept of schooling. I am sure practitioners, researchers and students of education will find it a valuable source of practical and theoretical information that would widen their horizon of understanding of sociology of education. - Tom Mongare Ndege, PhD, Moi University, Kenya The editors have compiled a brilliant collection of essays. Each piece of scholarly work shows how spirituality is a paramount part of our everyday lives and is connected to teaching, learning, living and healing. This is a timely and most relevant work that is sure to spur critical dialogue and discussion. This collection shows that while the spirit may be wounded it can never be broken. - Erica Neeganagwedgin, PhD, University of Toronto

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power

Author : Jane E. Soothill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004157891
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power written by Jane E. Soothill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a backdrop of debate concerning the role of Pentecostalism as a mediator of 'modernity', this book examines the interaction between charismatic Christianity, spiritual power and gendered social change in contemporary Ghana.

Spiritual, Moral, Social, & Cultural Education

Author : Stephen Bigger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134107897
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual, Moral, Social, & Cultural Education written by Stephen Bigger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this book, by a range of teachers and teacher trainers, explores specified values in the curriculum as well as whole curriculum issues, including religious education, drama, citizenship and vocational education, as well as the National Curriculum subjects. As a hugely controversial topic area, without general consensus on many key points, this book provides an introductory platform, consistently pointing to sources of further reading and suggesting signposts through the issues. Readers will get a wider insight into spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues, as well as the development of values in general, by reading the specialist chapters.

Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change

Author : Justine Afra Huxley
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784506168
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change by : Justine Afra Huxley

Download or read book Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change written by Justine Afra Huxley and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people are doing faith differently. They are redefining community, ministry and ritual for a new era. In the face of planetary crisis, the next generation no longer see faith as a private matter, instead they are integrating it with activism and the need for systemic change. Influenced by the wealth of different teachings and traditions available around them, their identities are increasingly multifaceted and emphatically global. This collection of stories and interviews with young adults and their allies explores this new landscape, reflecting both the energy and inspiration of the next generation and the tremendous challenges they face. It points towards an exciting evolution in the way we are relating to the sacred. With stories from: Adam Bucko, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Kara Moses, Abbas Zahedi, Camille Barton, Bruna Kadletz, Dekila Chungyalpa, Matt Youde, Amrita Bhohi, Sun Kaur, and many others. With supporting stories from senior leaders including: His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Rabbi Laura Janner Klausner, Bhai Sahib Dr Mohinder Singh, and more.

Mysticism and Social Change

Author : Alton Brooks Pollard
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and Social Change written by Alton Brooks Pollard and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics and activists alike have long dismissed mysticism as an «otherworldly» and escapist form of religion. Alton B. Pollard III, in a ground breaking study of the noted African-American mystic, Howard Thurman, presents an analysis of religious experience that challenges prevailing interpretations of mysticism and social change. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, phenomenology, and history, the author examines the meaning of mystical religion for the «underside» of contemporary American society. What he uncovers is significant: an activist form of mysticism, compelled by the dictates of spiritual experience, that defies social conventions and engenders social change.

Engaged Spirituality

Author : Gregory C. Stanczak
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813538365
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Engaged Spirituality written by Gregory C. Stanczak and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Engaged Spirituality, Gregory C. Stanczak challenges this assumption, arguing that spirituality plays an important social role as well. Based on more than one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, the book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. Among the stories, a Buddhist monk in Los Angeles intimately describes the physical sensations of strength and compassion that sweep her body when she recites the Buddha's name in times of selfless service, and a Protestant reverend explains how the calm serenity that she feels during retreats allows her to direct her multi-service agency in San Francisco to creative successes that were previously unimaginable. In an age when Madonna studies Kabbalah and the internet is bringing Buddhism to the white middle-class, it is clear that formal religious affiliations are no longer enough. Stanczak's critical examination of spirituality provides us with a way of discussing the factors that impel individuals into social activism and forces us to rethink the question of how "religion" and "spirituality" might be defined.

Music, Education, and Religion

Author : Alexis Anja Kallio
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253043743
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Music, Education, and Religion written by Alexis Anja Kallio and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education—including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.

Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education

Author : Kirmani, Mubina Hassanali
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668463725
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education written by Kirmani, Mubina Hassanali and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across academic circles over the last few decades, the interest and inquiry on spirituality continues to broaden. Currently, the school system in the United States and many Western countries put their focus on academic achievement at the expense of preparing their students inner cores for skills they will need to deal with a more complex and challenging world to come. Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education provides a platform for researchers and experts in the field of spirituality in children and youth to voice the urgent need for an educational system that truly nurtures the whole child. The book also considers the need to remove the misunderstandings about the terms spirituality and religion among those who work directly with children and youth. Covering key topics such as religion, cognitive development, and spiritual needs, this reference work is critical for principals, administrators, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Spiritual Education in a Divided World

Author : Cathy Ota
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136758453
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Education in a Divided World written by Cathy Ota and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of globalization debate has turned to the vital need for a thorough understanding of its impact on the spirituality and health of the youth of today. Spiritual Education in a Divided World recognises the urgent need for effective research in this area. This exceptional volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle the key question

Spirituality in Social Work and Education

Author : Janet Groen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554583810
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirituality in Social Work and Education by : Janet Groen

Download or read book Spirituality in Social Work and Education written by Janet Groen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years, the fields of social work and education have grappled separately with definitions of spirituality, ways to integrate spirituality into the classroom, and the rendering of spirituality as a meaningful concept for practitioners, students, and researchers. Social work and education have many commonalities in areas of engagement with children, families, and communities. For the first time, this book brings together these two professional disciplines for interdisciplinary discussions that advance our knowledge in the broad area of “spirituality.” The book’s three sections reflect broad topic areas created to facilitate dialogue between the contributors, all of whom have established expertise in exploring spirituality in education or social work. The first section of the book explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of spirituality in education and social work. Examination of our respective heritages uncovers the religious roots within our professions and reveals a present understanding of spirituality that calls for active engagement in challenging oppression and working toward social justice. The second section shifts the focus to the pedagogical implications of incorporating spirituality into higher-education classrooms. The varied level of acceptance and the tensions that come from including spirituality, implicitly or explicitly, in the programs and coursework in our respective faculties are illuminated by authors in both professions. The final section explores issues related to practising and teaching in the field from a spiritually sensitive perspective.

Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective

Author : Marilyn Y. Byrd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119356342
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective written by Marilyn Y. Byrd and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing from the discourse on spirituality are the injustices experienced in the workplace, particularly by individuals marginalized by social group identity or affiliation. This is a critical omission in that spirituality can stimulate reflection, response, healing, and transformation of the soul. Filling the gap by addressing the role of spirituality in relation to meaningful work, this volume extends ideas about teaching and learning about spirituality to workplace settings, including the transformative learning theory. In seeking ways to promote moral and socially responsible workplaces and to establish a new way of thinking, the volume lays down a philosophical framework for spirituality in the workplace as a means of emancipation and social justice, and shows how the workplace can be a fruitful context for social justice education. This is the 152nd volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education

Author : Arniika Kuusisto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290119
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education written by Arniika Kuusisto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From being on the margins of scholarly debate for much of the past century and a half, religion is being recognized once again as an area of concern for scholars, politicians, and public policy makers, and thus, the role of religious and spiritual education has taken on a new importance. Apart from its socio-political ramifications, the place of religiousness and spirituality in the make-up of individuals has been given renewed prominence through updated brain science, and neuroscientists regularly refer to elements of this brain science in terms such as spiritual intelligence and even mystical consciousness. This book explores many of the new directions being taken in the field of religious and spiritual education, as new developments challenge the priorities of formal education, and open up new avenues for incorporating religion and spirituality into the modern curriculum. It asks whether the educational aims of teachers should be focused on specifically personal development, or whether religious education should be used to develop understanding of more global and social issues such as citizenship, conflict, and ethics. The book also addresses neuroscientific insights, which suggest a need to engage with cognition and emotion in order to create a rich learning environment, something to which a particularly contested subject area like religion and spirituality is well-placed to contribute. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Beliefs & Values.

Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador

Author : Charles J. Beirne, S.J.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135597669
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador written by Charles J. Beirne, S.J. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador

Author : Charles Joseph Beirne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815321217
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador written by Charles Joseph Beirne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans

Author : Almeda Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190664754
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans written by Almeda Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, Almeda M. Wright argues that African American youth separate their everyday lives and their spirituality into mutually exclusive categories. This results in a noticeable division between their experiences of systemic injustices and their religious beliefs and practices. Yet Wright suggests that youth can and do teach the church and society myriad lessons through their theological reflections and actions. Giving special attention to the resources of African American religious and theological traditions, Wright creates a critical pedagogy for integrating spirituality into the lives of African American youth, as well as confronting and navigating spiritual fragmentation and systemic injustice.