Spiritual, Life and Values Education for Children

John Chi-Kin Lee is Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Director of the Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education and Director of the Academy of Educational Development and Innovation at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Hong Kong. He has served as the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor conferred by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Republic of China. Professor Lee is also UNESCO Chair in Regional Education Development and Lifelong Learning at the EdUHK and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Research Fellow. He has served as the editor of the International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, executive editor of Teaching and Teacher Education, and editorial board member or advisory editor of many local, regional and international journals. He is also a prolific writer who has edited and written more than 25 books, and published over 100 journal articles and book chapters.

• Preface Introduction (1 of 2)—Children’s spirituality, life and values education: cultural, spiritual and educational perspectives Introduction (2 of 2)—Children’s spirituality, life and religious education: socio-cultural and religious traditions and perspectives 1. Preparing Spirituality for Citizenship 2. Helps to Fostering Students' Spiritual Health 3. Attentiveness for children: proposing a neo-confucian curriculum for preschool education 4. A conceptual investigation into the possibility of spiritual education 5. The empathetic mind: the essence of human spirituality 6. Let’s play at the park! family pathways promoting spiritual resources to inspire nature, pretend play, storytelling, intergenerational play and celebrations 7. Children’s spirituality and theologising with children: the role of ‘context’ 8. An inclusive spiritual education