ERIC Number: EJ795705
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Publication Date: 2005
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Opportunities for Alignment: The Search for Spirituality within the Curriculum
Fain, Stephen M.
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, v9 n1 p93-100 Spr-Sum 2005
In this article, the author discusses how teachers and students can find opportunities in aligning their purposes to raise the curriculum from the mundane to the spiritual. The author believes that curriculum workers have the opportunity to facilitate and enhance the spiritual dimensions of the curriculum if they can facilitate liberating alignments between instructional forces and the lives of those who teach and learn. Reflecting on the question of the power of alignment, it is clear that individuals will not find spirituality in independent institutions as these institutions are not capable of feeling. The spiritual connection individuals seek will be found only when the individual and the institution come together in ways that connect thoughts and actions in the present. These connections can become possible when the design and implementation of curriculum achieve an "organic" state of unification that results in a natural continuity of the lives of all parties.
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Language: English
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