Schools with Spirit: Nurturing the Inner Lives of Children and Teachers
With a series of recent occurrences of violence in schools  across the nation, this important book on teaching spirituality  in American schools may serve as a significant resource for  school teachers and administrators who want to help their  students cultivate a sense of spirituality. Lantieri, founding  director of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program of  Educators for Social Responsibility and co-author of Waging  Peace in Our Schools, advocates that teachers should nurture a  sense of spiritual meaning in students, but also carefully  emphasizes that spirituality is not synonymous with religion. In  this collection of scholarly essays, 12 respected educators join  Lantieri in her quest to discover how educators can nurture the  inner lives of their students without violating the beliefs of  their families or their distinct faiths. Among these educators  are Rachel Kessler, who writes on seven "gateways" to nurturing  inner lives, and Geoffrey Canada, who discusses the rewards of  practicing and teaching tai chi. Teachers who struggle to  achieve this difficult equilibrium will welcome the wealth of  practical advice that these essays have to offer. So too will  high school libraries and academic libraries with strong  collections on education. Samuel T. Huang, Univ. of Arizona,  TucsonCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.