Spiritual development: understanding and importance in schools: an analysis based on statements made by school directors from Valparaíso, Chile

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2018-06-29 DOI:10.1080/1364436X.2018.1488680

Francisco Vargas-Herrera, Loreto Moya-Marchant

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ABSTRACT Chile’s General Law of Education states that one of the purposes of education is the spiritual development of all its schooled population. Furthermore, guidelines in Chile’s education system place school directors as key players in student’s learning. This article presents the results of a research involving school directors from Valparaíso, Chile. The aim of this research was to identify how directors of secular and religious schools understand their students’ spiritual development. We studied this aspect in particular through semi-structured interviews conducted with 20 participants. Results show that directors understand spirituality as a typically human ability that can be strengthened in schools and, thus, they believe it to be highly important in schools. In addition, they see a strong relation between spiritual development and ethical and moral development. This study also shows differences in how secular and religious schools’ directors understand this relation. This opens the way for more in-depth analysis regarding spiritual development in Chile’s education system, especially considering that directors generally believe it to be a part of a holistic and quality education.

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精神发展:学校的理解和重要性:基于智利Valparaíso学校校长发言的分析

智利《教育通则》规定，教育的目的之一是促进所有受教育人口的精神发展。此外，智利教育系统的指导方针将学校校长置于学生学习的关键角色。本文介绍了一项涉及智利Valparaíso学校主管的研究结果。本研究的目的是确定世俗和宗教学校的校长如何理解他们的学生的精神发展。我们通过与20名参与者进行的半结构化访谈特别研究了这方面。结果表明，导演将灵性理解为一种典型的人类能力，可以在学校中得到加强，因此，他们认为灵性在学校中非常重要。此外，他们认为精神发展与伦理道德发展之间有着密切的关系。本研究也显示了世俗学校和宗教学校校长对这种关系的理解存在差异。这为更深入地分析智利教育体系中的精神发展开辟了道路，特别是考虑到主管们普遍认为这是全面素质教育的一部分。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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