Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education
Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education

Author: Elizabeth J. Tisdell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2003-06-17

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0787971243

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Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth Tisdell who has extensive experience dealing with culture, gender, and educational equity issues in secular adult and higher education classrooms, and formerly in pastoral and religious education settings on college campuses. This important book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture and how this knowledge is relevant to teaching and learning. For educators, an understanding of how spirituality is informed by culture, and how spirituality assists in meaning-making, can aid in their efforts to help their students' educational experiences become more transformative and culturally relevant.

Spirituality of Adult Education and Training
Spirituality of Adult Education and Training

Author: Leona M. English

Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781575241807

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This work acknowledges that spirituality is an integral part of adult learning and development. Building on the history of adult education and training, the authors suggest that the profession needs to recover some of its early concerns for holistic and spirituality informed practice.

Addressing the Spiritual Dimensions of Adult Learning: What Educators Can Do
Addressing the Spiritual Dimensions of Adult Learning: What Educators Can Do

Author: Leona M. English

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2000-04-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780787953645

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In this issue, the authors argue that adult educators must find ways to add a spiritual dimension to their practice if they are to take a truly comprehensive approach to adult education, one that meets all of adult learners needs. They show how an integral part of adult education is helping learners discover a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, a feeling of connection with something larger than themselves. The contributors discuss how mentoring, self-directed learning, and dialogue can be used to promote spiritual development, and advocate the learning covenant as a way of formalizing the sanctity of the bond between learners and educators. They draw on examples from settings as varied as continuing professional education, community development, and health education to show how a spiritual dimension has been successfully integrated into adult education programs. This is the 85th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.

Awakening the Will
Awakening the Will

Author: Coenraad van Houten

Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781902636115

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How do adults learn? What is the task of the adult educator in adult education? What can adults do to take charge of their learning? Offering a theoretical and practical framework, this book regards adult education as a full profession.

Practising Destiny
Practising Destiny

Author: Coenraad van Houten

Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781902636214

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Increasingly, people are realizing that education must continue throughout life. We face the choice of remaining as we are or developing ourselves. Through his extensive experience of leading seminars and training, the author developed three paths for adult learning: "vocational learning," "destiny learning," and "spiritual research learning." He describes the sevenfold path of destiny learning that leads through group-work to karmic knowledge. He also describes the seven professional fields of the adult educator as an aid to self-education.

Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective
Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective

Author: Marilyn Y. Byrd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1119356342

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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.