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Savishinsky, Joel – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2004
Cultures differ in their models of the life course, including the number and the content of the stages through which people are expected to pass. Among those societies that recognize a period of retirement, the developmental tasks and opportunities that older individuals face are shaped by cultural ideas about morality, spirituality, passion, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Retirement, Leisure Time
Veverka, Fayette Breaux – Religious Education, 2004
The concept of "practice" has become a central category of social analysis across a variety of disciplines. While religious educators have begun to recognize the critical role of practices in faith formation, less attention has been given to their role in education for responsible religious pluralism. Based on conversations between Catholic and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Identification (Psychology), Jews, Beliefs

Holden, Janice Miner – Counseling and Values, 2004
This article explains the author's guiding theory of counseling based on her understanding and adaptation of K. Wilber's (2000b) integral psychology (11). She discusses, from an IT perspective, how the psyche develops and changes and the role of counseling in change. She explains her particular resonance to IT, which she considers an inherently…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Psychology, Psychotherapy

Smith, June A.; Smith, Alanzo H. – Counseling and Values, 2004
The authors have found no study that addressed the influence of religious practices, biblical texts, and a spiritual environment on the dynamics of coping with crises often experienced by couples who are infertile and who transition into childlessness. Twenty-five couples from the greater New York area who were referred by religious leaders…
Descriptors: Intervention, Religion, Childlessness, Religious Factors
Arweck, Elisabeth; Nesbitt, Eleanor – British Educational Research Journal, 2004
The article is concerned with values education in schools in the light of the requirement for schools to provide for the spiritual, moral, cultural and social development of children and in the light of wider discussions regarding 'spirituality' in (post) modern society. The authors focus on Living Values, a programme developed as a way of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Values Education, Program Descriptions, Educational Research
Puolimatka, Tapio – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2005
Augustine's concept of the deep self provides a basis for a complex and many-faceted account of critical thinking. He uncovers the moral sources of thinking in the inner depths of the self and shows that critical thinking presupposes radical self-reflection ready to face the truth about oneself. Self-knowledge assumes transparency, consciousness…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Spiritual Development, Self Concept, Moral Values
Rogers, Judy L. – About Campus, 2003
In this article, the author shares the anxiety she first felt when she learned that she will be teaching a course on the spiritual dimensions of leadership. She was afraid of the fact that she would be going to give up a lot of control when she starts this course. Unlike teaching organization theory, where the boundaries seem clear and tidy,…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Leadership Training, Personal Narratives
Frame, Marsha Wiggins; Uphold, Constance R.; Shehan, Constance L.; Reid, Kimberly J. – Counseling and Values, 2005
This study examined the association of spirituality and health-related quality of life among 226 HIV-positive men. Two measures of spirituality were used: the Spiritual Growth subscale from the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (S. N. Walker, K. R. Sechrist, & N. J. Pender, 1987) and the Spirituality subscale of the HIV Coping Instrument (L.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Religious Factors, Spiritual Development
Lindholm, Jennifer A. – About Campus, 2007
Results compiled from several studies indicate that college students place significant personal emphasis on matters related to spirituality. Compiling students' responses from the author's 2003 pilot study, subsequent focus group interviews, and the 2004 national survey, along with faculty's responses from the 2004-2005 Higher Education Research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Students, Campuses, Student Attitudes
Wesley, Sherre – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
Through the arts, people holistically learn, interact with greater multicultural diversity than elsewhere, and form connections with others. Participating in the arts gives adults experiences, contexts, and tools to help them reexperience, revision, and reconceptualize multicultural diversity in their lives and communities. To illustrate aspects…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Student Diversity, Adult Educators, Teaching Methods
Main, Squirrel – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
This article discusses how the traditional Maori concept of Hauora (balanced development) can be applied to beginning teacher induction programmes. To develop this idea, several steps were taken. From a nationwide survey, five primary schools were chosen with exemplary induction programmes. Data from interviews and observations indicated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Meeusen-van de Kerkhof, Rianne; van Bommel, Hanneke; van de Wouw, Werner; Maaskant, Marian – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
The authors examine the way in which people with intellectual disability (ID) handle death and mourning, and note that the way in which death and bereavement are being experienced depends--among other things--upon the intellectual and socio-emotional age of the individual. The authors used the theories formulated by Piaget (cognitive development),…
Descriptors: Grief, Mental Retardation, Social Development, Cognitive Development
Firmin, Michael; Warner, Susan; Lowe, Amybeth – Christian Higher Education, 2006
This study utilized a qualitative research method with a sample of 24 students at a private evangelical Christian university in the midwest. The students' developmental years had been spent growing up in mission foreign-field contexts as missionary kids (MKs). In-depth interviews were conducted and transcribed, with coding and theme analysis…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Foreign Culture, Social Adjustment, Interviews
Erricker, Clive – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
This article discusses the implications of difference in relation to religious education, multiculturalism and contemporary "terrorist" global activity. It argues that the model for religious education in England and Wales has not been sufficient in addressing children's spiritual development. Religious education has been pursued through…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Religious Education
de Souza, Marian – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
This article explores the problem of discussing a spiritual dimension in education within the secular context of western society, and Australian society in particular. It explores the idea that spirituality is relational and proposes an approach to learning that nurtures and gives expression to spirituality in terms of the connectedness students…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Altruism, Religious Factors, Cultural Pluralism