Spiritual Education

Cathy Ota is Research Fellow, Education Research Centre, University of Brighton. Clive Erricker is County Inspector for Religious Education, Hampshire. The volume editors are co-editors of the "International Journal of Children's Spirituality".

• Contents: Introduction by Cathy Ota and Clive Erricker; Spirituality and Religiosity in Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Schools: Implications for Religious School Communities; "And What Do the Children Say?" Children's Responses to Books About Spiritual Matters; North American Indian Spirituality in the World of Western Children: Neo-Colonialism in a Post-Colonial Society; Issues of Identity for 'Asian' Girls in Britain; Why Religious Teaching Goes Wrong: Grace and Play as the Basis of Spiritual Experience; Spirituality in Young Adolescents: Thinking Developmentally; The Spiritual and the Fantastical - George MacDonald's "Wise Woman"; Faith and Social Intimacy: Learning for Life; How Metaphors Structure Our Spiritual Understanding; The Chinese Approach to Learning: Chinese Calligraphy; Encountering Tradition in a Postmodern Context; Reading and Responding to Biblical Texts: Aesthetic Distance and the Spiritual Journey; The Spiritual Dimension of the Curriculum: What are school inspectors looking for and how can we help them find it?; Teachers' Values and Spiritualities: From Private to Public; Faith Education of Children in the Context of Adult ; Migration and Conversion: The Discontinuities of Tradition; Metaphors of Spiritual Education: Fight and Blessing; The Contributors; Index.