Healing the physical/spiritual divide through a holistic and hermeneutic approach to education
Webster, R. Scott 2013, Healing the physical/spiritual divide through a holistic and hermeneutic approach to education, International journal of children's spirituality, vol. 18, no. 1, Special issue: Spirituality and physicality : crossing thresholds, pp. 62-73, doi: 10.1080/1364436X.2012.755955.
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Healing the physical/spiritual divide through a holistic and hermeneutic approach to education
In this special edition of the journal, attention is being given to the two dimensions of spirituality and physicality. In this particular paper I argue that there is an unhelpful divide that is often assumed to exist between these two dimensions and that this divide can be transcended or healed' through a holistic and hermeneutic approach to education. Rather than give our focus to narrower concerns such as spiritual education and physical education, we ought instead to pursue education in such a way that it is understood to necessarily be inclusive of both the physical and the spiritual simultaneously. That is, our spirituality is necessarily embodied in the physical. In order to make this argument, references to holistic education shall mainly draw upon the works of Dewey and Gadamer.
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10.1080/1364436X.2012.755955
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130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
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939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified
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