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Rival Conceptions of Spiritual Education
Author(s) -
CARR DAVID
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1996.tb00389.x
Subject(s) - clarity , politics , epistemology , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , psychology , spiritual development , sociology , social psychology , spirituality , political science , philosophy , law , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics
The recent upsurge of interest, political and professional, in the notion of spiritual education would appear to have been accompanied by no greater clarity in our understanding of teaching, learning and development in the spiritual domain; indeed, most official and other literature on the spiritual aspects of schooling seems blissfully unaware of much need for rigorous analysis regarding a domain of usage which licenses different and not clearly consistent conceptions of spiritual experience and enquiry. While attempting to give more precise expression to these competing views, this paper proceeds to argue for the greater coherence of one particular conception over its likely rivals.