From Malaise to Re-enchantment: The Spiritual Retreat Centre as a Place of Environmental Adult Education
Adult education’s increasing interests in spirituality and the environment are intertwined against a backdrop of disenchantment and malaise within modern Western society. This article argues that attention should be directed towards environmental adult education responses and programmes located with...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2013
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Journal for the Study of Spirituality
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-55 |
| Further subjects: | B
Adult learning
B ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION B Spirituality |
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| Summary: | Adult education’s increasing interests in spirituality and the environment are intertwined against a backdrop of disenchantment and malaise within modern Western society. This article argues that attention should be directed towards environmental adult education responses and programmes located within a humanistic orientation to learning: an example being self-directed activities that weave together spirituality, nature and learning within the spiritual retreat centre. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-0251 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the Study of Spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/2044024313Z.0000000004 |