Education for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

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Ron Best
A&C Black, 2000 M06 1 - 226 páginas
Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches.

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Where are we going with SMSC?
1
1 Developing SMSC for the school curriculum
13
the social construction of spiritual moral social and cultural education
22
3 Practical ways for developing SMSC across the curriculum
37
uneasy bedfellows?
52
towards a public discourse model of moral education
68
the role of emotional education in raising school achievement and promoting the caring community
80
towards creating a paradigm for discerning the spiritual dimension of education
91
10 Vocational education and SMSC
130
11 For richer? For poorer? For worker? For citizen
143
its relationship to school improvement and the role of religious education
155
13 Developing an understanding of worth
164
a forum for SMSC?
173
15 A collaborative approach to researching teacher work in developing spiritual and moral education
187
16 Reflections on inspections
199
Conclusion
210

8 The contribution of the act of collective worship to spiritual and moral development
106
9 Rediscovering the personal in education
117

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Página 185 - Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Página 206 - Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
Página 13 - Act, which states that schools are required to provide a balanced and broadly based curriculum which (a) promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society; and (b) prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
Página 185 - We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Página 86 - I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Página 187 - [p]romote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society; and prepare such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life' (Education Reform Act 1988:1).
Página 96 - Wittgenstein, referring to the religious believer, recognizes as the strangeness and viability of his way of life: "[He] is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but thin air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it...
Página 86 - If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Página 185 - Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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Ron Best is professor and dean od Education of Roehamption University, London.

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