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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 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." Throughout this book, Elizabeth Tisdell shows higher and adult educators how they can draw on both psychological and sociocultural aspects of spirituality to facilitate ongoing knowledge construction in their students - and themselves. For example, educators and students can use classroom activities that incorporate image, symbol, music, and art forms that focus on both the commonalities and differences of human experience. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
About the Author
Pt. I Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Meaning-Making and Education
ch. 1 Introduction: Culture, Spirituality, and Adult Learning
ch. 2 Breaking the Silence: Defining Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant Education Context
ch. 3 Spirituality, Religion, and Culture in Lived Experience: Overlaps and Separations
ch. 4 Between the Cultural and the Universal: Themes and Variations of Spiritual Experience
Pt. II Claiming a Sacred Face: Identity and Spiritual Development
ch. 5 The Great Spiral: Spiritual Development as a Process of Moving Forward and Spiraling Back
ch. 6 Gender, Culture, and Spiritual Identity in Midlife Integration
ch. 7 The Role of Spiritual Experience in Developing a Positive Cultural Identity
ch. 8 Searching for Wholeness: Crossing Culture, White Identity, and Spiritual Development
Pt. III Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant and Transformative Teaching Practice
ch. 9 Approaching Transformative Teaching Grounded in Spirituality and Cultural Relevance
ch. 10 A Theory-in-Progress of a Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Philosophical Underpinnings and New Directions
ch. 11 Stories from the Field: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Higher Education Classrooms
ch. 12 The Possibilities and Challenges of Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Teaching
Epilogue: Final Reflections
App.: Research Methodology
References
Index
"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 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." Throughout this book, Elizabeth Tisdell shows higher and adult educators how they can draw on both psychological and sociocultural aspects of spirituality to facilitate ongoing knowledge construction in their students - and themselves. For example, educators and students can use classroom activities that incorporate image, symbol, music, and art forms that focus on both the commonalities and differences of human experience. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
About the Author
Pt. I Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Meaning-Making and Education
ch. 1 Introduction: Culture, Spirituality, and Adult Learning
ch. 2 Breaking the Silence: Defining Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant Education Context
ch. 3 Spirituality, Religion, and Culture in Lived Experience: Overlaps and Separations
ch. 4 Between the Cultural and the Universal: Themes and Variations of Spiritual Experience
Pt. II Claiming a Sacred Face: Identity and Spiritual Development
ch. 5 The Great Spiral: Spiritual Development as a Process of Moving Forward and Spiraling Back
ch. 6 Gender, Culture, and Spiritual Identity in Midlife Integration
ch. 7 The Role of Spiritual Experience in Developing a Positive Cultural Identity
ch. 8 Searching for Wholeness: Crossing Culture, White Identity, and Spiritual Development
Pt. III Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant and Transformative Teaching Practice
ch. 9 Approaching Transformative Teaching Grounded in Spirituality and Cultural Relevance
ch. 10 A Theory-in-Progress of a Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Philosophical Underpinnings and New Directions
ch. 11 Stories from the Field: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Higher Education Classrooms
ch. 12 The Possibilities and Challenges of Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Teaching
Epilogue: Final Reflections
App.: Research Methodology
References
Index