Loading...

Gateways to Spirituality

Pre-School through Grade Twelve

by Peter Cobb (Volume editor)
©2005 Textbook XIV, 298 Pages

Summary

Gateways to Spirituality: Pre-School through Grade Twelve focuses on spiritual formation in American pre-collegiate education. Its 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. School administrators, teachers, counselors, and chaplains who are interested in issues of liberal education and spirituality, who wish to take religious diversity and spiritual identity seriously, and who offer courses in religious studies will find Gateways to Spirituality an invaluable resource.

Details

Pages
XIV, 298
Year
2005
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820468150
Language
English
Keywords
USA Vorschule Religiöse Erziehung Aufsatzsammlung Spiritual formation Education Religious pluralism Spiritual practice Common spiritual
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XIV, 298 pp., 3 fig.

Biographical notes

Peter Cobb (Volume editor)

The Editor: Peter W. Cobb received a B. A. in political science from Knox College; an M.A. in international relations from The American University; and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He taught religion and served as a school administrator for twenty-four years prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education from 1997-2003. Mr. Cobb is President of Cobb & Associates, an Atlanta-based consulting firm dedicated to «helping schools and families keep the heart in mind». His articles have appeared in CSEE Connections and Independent School magazine.

Previous

Title: Gateways to Spirituality