TY - BOOK TI - Global perspectives on spirituality and education SN - 9780415636193 U1 - 200.71 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge N1 - 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 ER -