Studies in Education and Spirituality

 

Studies in Education & Spirituality

A SERIES OF BOOKS THAT PRESENT THE READER WITH THE MOST RECENT THINKING ABOUT THE ROLE OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

 

Education as Transformation: Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, & a New Vision for Higher Education in America

 

  • Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr. and Peter L. Laurence, editors

 

Essays by a wide range of educators including presidents, chancellors, deans, faculty members, administrators, religious life professionals, students, and other leaders in the field of education.

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Transforming Campus Life: Reflections on Spirituality & Religious Pluralism

 

  • Vachel W. Miller and Merle M. Ryan, editors

 

An invitation to engage in new conversations about the spiritual and religious dimensions of diversity, leadership, student development, and learning.

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Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue

 

  • Robert J. Nash

 

American colleges and universities need to enlarge their understanding of pluralism and multiculturalism by sponsoring open, challenging, spiritually and educationally revitalizing conversations among students about genuine religious difference.

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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom

  • Anne French Dalke

 

A collection of stories about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom, reflecting on the point and purpose of education with a particular concern for the religious and interactive dimensions of the process.

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Spirituality, Ethics, Religion and Teaching: A Professor's Journey

  • Robert J. Nash

A first person, pedagogical reflection on what the author has learned about being a teacher and a student over a thirty-five-year career in a "public ivy" university.

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Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy

 

  • Anne Dalke and Barbara Dixson, editors

 

Informed either by personal commitment to Quakerism, or by individual work within Quaker institutions, the authors offer thoughtful and revealing reflections that are important contributions to pedagogy.

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Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart

  • Diana Denton & Will Ashton, editors

"The authors in this collection are practitioners in higher education and teaching in such diverse areas as educational foundations, communication, theater, sociology, reading and literacy, and performance studies. They address the integration of spirituality into pedagogical practices by providing cutting-edge examples of applications in the classroom."

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Religion and Spirituality in the Life Cycle

  • James Gollnick

This book addresses the evolving relationship of spirituality to religion in our time, and the consequences of this change for understanding personality development. It also applies the concept of implicit religion to show how the least easily observed aspects of religion are at work in the growth of personality.

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Gateways to Spirituality: Pre-School through Grade Twelve

  • Peter W. Cobb, editor

Focusing on spiritual formation in American pre-collegiate education, the fifteen contributors advance distinctive views about the connections that exist between spirituality, learning, social and ethical consciousness, and community life.  The book will be useful to educators who wish to acknowledge youth spirituality in ways that are informed, fair, constitutional, and inclusive.

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Integrative Learning and Action: A Call to Wholeness

Susan M. Awbrey, Diane Dana, Vachel W. Miller, Phyllis Robinson, Merle M. Ryan, David K. Scott, editors

A collection of essays by poets, organizational theorists, scientists, lawyers, educators, philosophers, administrators, and contemplatives who challenge us to chart a new integrative course for the future, to expand our thinking, and to re-enlist our hearts in the life-long journey of learning and living.

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