Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education

by Tisdell, Elizabeth J.

• ISBN13: 9780787957230
• ISBN10: 0787957232
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth Tisdell who has extensive experience dealing with culture, gender, and educational equity issues in secular adult and higher education classrooms, and formerly in pastoral and religious education settings on college campuses. This important book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture and how this knowledge is relevant to teaching and learning. For educators, an understanding of how spirituality is informed by culture, and how spirituality assists in meaning-making, can aid in their efforts to help their students' educational experiences become more transformative and culturally relevant.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Tisdell is an associate professor of adult education at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
About the Author	p. xx
Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Meaning-Making and Education	p. 1
Introduction: Culture, Spirituality, and Adult Learning	p. 3
Breaking the Silence: Defining Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant Educational Context	p. 25
Spirituality, Religion, and Culture in Lived Experience: Overlaps and Separations	p. 45
Between the Cultural and the Universal: Themes and Variations of Spiritual Experience	p. 67
Claiming a Sacred Face: Identity and Spiritual Development	p. 89
The Great Spiral: Spiritual Development as a Process of Moving Forward and Spiraling Back	p. 93
Gender, Culture, and Spiritual Identity in Midlife Integration	p. 117
The Role of Spiritual Experience in Developing a Positive Cultural Identity	p. 139
Searching for Wholeness: Crossing Culture, White Identity, and Spiritual Development	p. 163
Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant and Transformative Teaching Practice	p. 183
Approaching Transformative Teaching Grounded in Spirituality and Cultural Relevance	p. 187
A Theory-in-Progress of a Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Philosophical Underpinnings and New Directions	p. 203
Stories from the Field: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Higher Education Classrooms	p. 219
The Possibilities and Challenges of Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Teaching	p. 235
Epilogue: Final Reflections	p. 259
Research Methodology	p. 263
References	p. 271
Index	p. 285
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