Common values for the common school? Using two values education programmes to promote 'spiritual and moral development'

• Published in: Journal of moral education Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 325 - 342
• Main Authors: Arweck, Elisabeth, Nesbitt, Eleanor, Jackson, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 01.09.2005; Taylor & Francis Group Journals; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Child development; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; Education; Education policy; Educational sciences; England; Foreign Countries; Hinduism; Ideological education, moral education; Moral Development; Moral education; Moral philosophy; Program Descriptions; Religious Cultural Groups; Religious education; Schools; Spiritual Development; Spirituality; Teaching methods; United Kingdom; Values; Values Education; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Curriculum Subject; Spirituality; Moral Development; Teaching curriculum; University; Value system
• ISSN: 0305-7240; 1465-3877
• DOI: 10.1080/03057240500206154

This article reports on two values education programmes currently available for UK schools, which are associated with two Hindu-related organisations, the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University and the Sathya Sai Service Organisation, UK. Attention is paid to the development of the programmes, the educational context in which they seek to embed themselves and the reasons for their implementation in some schools in England. We describe how values are included in curriculum subjects and how the content of the two values programmes are conveyed in the classroom as part of pupils' spiritual and moral development.