John Macmurray, Spirituality, Community and Real Schools
Title:
John Macmurray, Spirituality, Community and Real Schools
Author:
Stern, Julian
Appeared in:
international journal of children's spirituality
Paging:
Volume 6 (2001) nr. 1 pages 25-39
Year:
2001-06-01
Contents:
This paper suggests that the work of the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray provides a valuable contribution to debates on spirituality, education, and schools as communities. In particular by recognizing the nature of the spiritual in everyday activities of people in communities, by focusing on the overall aims of schooling, and by rejecting dualism, idealism and materialism, Macmurray was able to describe how schools might properly be organized. The paper aims to investigate some of Macmurray's insights, to see how they might help transform one's vision of schooling.
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