Education Of The Whole Child, The (Issues In Education)

Description: Are the needs of children catered for by current educational systems? Is it important to seek out or act upon the opinions of children? This book is an account of a project prompted by such questions. It discusses the implications of the research for educational policy and provision.


Contents: What is the education of the whole child?; the educational climate and the children and worldviews project; how we carried out the research; children's experience of conflict and loss; children's religious and scientific thinking; the identity of "Asian" children; taking children's stories to other children; children and parental separation; religious identity and children's worldviews; the implications for education; the implications for the classroom; religious education and collective worship; children's spirituality and our contemporary culture; prospects for education.