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Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education

ISBN: 978-1-119-17796-8

June 2015

Jossey-Bass

384 pages

Description
This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive resource that addresses the growing movement for incorporating spirituality as an important aspect of the meaning and purpose of higher education. Written by Arthur W. Chickering, Jon C. Dalton, and Leisa Stamm—experts in the field of educational leadership and policy—Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education shows how to encourage increased authenticity and spiritual growth among students and education professionals by offering alternative ways of knowing, being, and doing.

Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education includes a rich array of examples to guide the integration of authenticity and spirituality in curriculum, student affairs, community partnerships, assessment, and policy issues. Many of these illustrative examples represent specific policies and programs that have successfully been put in place at diverse institutions across the country. In addition, the authors cover the theoretical, historical, and social perspectives on religion and higher education and examine the implications for practice. They include the results of recent court cases that deal with church-state issues and offer recommendations that pose no legal barrier to implementation.

 

About the Author
Arthur W. Chickering is Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Vermont College of the Union Institute and University, as well as Research Professor at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. His research and writing have focused on college impacts on human development and educationally effective institutions. He is the author of several Jossey-Bass books, including the best-selling classic, Education and Identity, now in its second edition.

Jon C. Dalton is Director of the Center for the Study of Values in College Student Development and former VP for Student Affairs at Florida State University. He has contributed to many Jossey-Bass publications, including the Student Services handbook and a number of New Directions sourcebooks.

Leisa Stamm has contributed to the field of higher education at the institutional, state and national levels for 25 years. She is currently consulting with Rutgers University on the development of courses with a focus on meaning and purpose, including spirituality.