Aspects of Spirituality and Education

Contents: Section-A : Nature of Spirituality: 1.Intimation of Spirituality/R.P. Sharma. 2. Our Self: In the Light of Thich Nhat Hanh's Understanding/ Neelam Mehra Bali. 3. Spiritual Unity in the Thought of Sri Aurobindo: the Very Basis of All Human Education/Arbind Kumar Jha. 4. Advaita Vedanta of Sankara/. Reena Kannojiya. 5. Yoga: The Eternal Panacea/ Savita Sharma. Section-B : Spirituality : The Educational Pathway: 6. Spiritual Development Through Education-Swami Vivekananda/ Naraginti Amareswaran and S.K. Panneer Selvam. 7. Realizing Self through Aesthetic Experience/ Arti Srivastava. 8. Education for Spiritual Development in School Students/G.K. Joneja. 9. Story Telling for Spiritual Education: Reflections of an ELT Practitioner/Pranita Gopal. 10. Fostering Spiritual Development through Education/ Aradhana Mani. 11. Spiritual Development: Need of the hour/Manisha Minocha and Monica Auplish. Section - C : Value, Education and Spirituality: 12. Value of Education vis-a-vis Value Education: Swami Vivekananda's Fundamental thoughts on Education and their Practical Application in the Present-day Context/Swami Atmapriyananda. 13. Towards a New era of Value Creation by Dr. Diasaku Ikeda, President Soka Gakkai International/Sadhana Srivastava. 14. Spirituality in Action/ Neerja Dhankar. Section-D: Expanding Spiritual Space: 15. Thoughts of Eminent Indian Thinkers on Women's Education/ Gouri Srivastava. 16. Mahatma Gandhi and The Bhagvad Gita/Y.P. Anand. 17. Integrating Spirituality and Psychotherapy/Amita Puri. An attempt has been made in the book to facilitate the readers towards the subject of spirituality and Education. The different aspects of Spirituality discussed in the book present the occasions and opportunities available with us to naturally realize and reflect on the issue. These papers with notes, references and bibliography are grouped in four sections e.i. Nature of Spirituality, Spirituality: The Educational Pathway; Value, Education and Spirituality; and Expanding Spiritual Space, which highlight the different dimensions of Spiritual Quotient in educational parlance.…