Moving in From the Fringes of the Academy: Spirituality as an Emerging Focus in the Canadian Professional Faculties of Business, Education, and Social Work
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v43i3.52290Abstract
An increasing number of professional faculties in Canada are teaching courses. conducting research and offering conferences that address some aspect of spirituality. Through a review of course offerings and publications taught and authored by Canadian faculty associated with business, education and social work, this paper provides a preliminary comparative analysis of the emerging force of spirituality as a focus for research and teaching within these three professional faculties in the context of Canadian universities. While there is a gradual emergence of spirituality as a research and teaching agenda, particularly within the professional faculties of social work and adult education (within the faculty of education), there is evidence of underlying tensions within the mainstream academy as it seeks to ignore, marginalize and at times actively discourage such a focus.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The Journal of Educational Thought retains first publication rights for all articles. The Journal grants reproduction rights for noncommercial educational purposes with the provision that full acknowledgement of the work’s source be noted on each copy. The Journal will redirect to the appropriate authors any inquiries for further commercial publication of individual articles. All authors wishing to publish in JET will be asked to fill in and sign a Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright agreement.
Authors must affirm that any submission to JET has not been and will not be published or submitted elsewhere while under considration by JET.
