This chapter argues that today's dominant forms of education are insufficient for today's world because they ignore the vast and conventionally untapped resource that lies in the disciplined inwardness that is contemplative life. It then surveys a range of transformative examples that are emerging in the educational movement known as…

Spiritualism can exist in a secular educational institution. In this autoethnography, the author shares the spiritual challenge she had with students in her initial years of teaching as an assistant professor. She discusses her spiritual pedagogical approach, which she integrates into her teaching strategies to touch the minds, hearts, and spirits…

Whereas questions about meaning and purpose are appropriate and perhaps essential in the classroom, teachers should integrate them with caution.

Spirit-driven leadership requires an inner journey, wholeness, and reflection.

Spirituality and service learning can be related meaningfully in institutions of higher education when there is a focus on serving others.

Spirituality is difficult to define, but two paradigmatic approaches to worldviews can help provide the basis for two groups of definitions.

The spiritual identity of the academy is historically based, and changes in that identity pose special problems for the search for truth in contemporary times.