Global perspectives on spirituality and education/ Watson, Jacqueline, ed.

PARTI
Spirituality and Education in Europe and Israel
Introduction
JACQUELINE WATSON
1 Spirituality, Faith and Education: Some Reflections from a
UK Perspective
RON BEST
2 Spiritual Development in Schools with No Faith Affiliation:
The Cultural Ambivalence Towards Children's Spirituality
in England
KATE ADAMS
3 The Custody of Spiritual Education in Ireland
JAMES O'HIGGINS NORMAN AND CAROLINE RENEHAN
4 The Complex Flavour of Children's Spirituality in Flanders:
Fostering an Open Catholic Spirituality
ANNEMIE DILLEN
5 An Emerging Approach to Spiritual Development through
Religious Education in Maltese Schools
ADRIAN-MARIO GELLEL
6 Spirituality and Education in Finland: Meeting the
Socio-Demographic Changes with Empirical Research
KIRSI TIRRI AND MARTIN UBANI
7 Spirituality in Israeli State Jewish Education: Possible Guidelines
for National Education Systems
YAACOVJ.KATZ
PART II
Spirituality and Education in the Australasian Region
Introduction
MARIAN DE SOUZA
8 Taha Wairua: The Spiritual in State Education in Aotearoa
New Zealand
DEBORAH ERASER
9 Spirituality and Early Childhood Education in New Zealand
and Australia: Past, Present and Future
JANE BONE
10 Nurturing Spirituality through a Dispositional Framework in
Early Years' Contexts
BRENDAN HYDE
11 A Perspective on Spiritual Education in Australian Schools:
The Emergence of Nonreligious Personal Development
Approaches
GRAHAM ROSSITER
12 Buddhism in Bhutanese Education
NOA JONES
13 Life Education in Contemporary Chinese Societies
NGAR-SZE ELSA LAU
14 The Japanese Way of Spiritual Cultivation
YOSHIHARU NAKAGAWA
15 Spiritual Education in Singapore and Hong Kong: Issues,
Challenges and Prospects
CHARLENE TAN AND KAILl C. ZHANG
16 Buddha's Beacon and the Long Shadow of Thai Culture:
Spirituality and Education in Thailand
MICHAEL ERNEST JONES
PART III
Spirituality and Education in the Americas
Introduction
ANN TROUSDALE
17 Spirituality in Canadian Education
MICHAEL DALLAIRE
18 Pluralism and Polarity: Spirituality and Education in the
United States
ANN TROUSDALE
19 Presence, Resonance, Transcendence: Education, Spirituality
and the Contemplative Mind
TOBIN HART
20 Transformative Approaches to Teacher Education
ROBERT LONDON
21 Research as Transformative Learning: A Longitudinal Study
of Spirituality, Cultural Identity, and Unfolding Wisdom in the
Lives of US Educators
ELIZABETH J. TISDELL
22 Spiritual Education in Brazil: Debates, Trends, Proposals, and
Experiments
DORA INCONTRI
23 Global Perspectives and Contexts for Spirituality in Education
JACQUELINE WATSON, MARIAN DE SOUZA AND ANN TROUSDALE