spiritual education through postmodern thoughts

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Mazandaran university doctoral student in higher education

Abstract

Through emersion of philosophical schools and new thinking approaches in education arena like postmodernism and post structuralism, some challenges emerge in front of human education specially his/her spiritual education. We intend to explain postmodern spirituality and spiritual education’s place, components and indicators by descriptive – analytic approach. First we try to access a partly comprehensive concept for spirituality and spiritual education, then to clarify its semantic scope and conceptual differentiation with some near arenas like religious and moral education, finally to specify postmodern special attitude toward spiritual education. Findings showed according to postmodern humanistic regard, everything solution even spiritual need refers to humanism, secularism and material benefits. spirituality is a means to the human temporary and present peacefulness (false comfort). But real spiritual education should release human beings from ego-centrism and makes them humane and sympathetic about each other. In addition based on postmodern secular worldview, rather worldly goals are important, from postmodern viewpoint religion and commandments have no special place just as means for material and worldly interests.

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The Journal of New Thoughts on Education
Volume 13, Issue 3 - Serial Number 45
December 2017
Pages 89-122

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