Articles - On Viewing Learners as Spiritual Beings
On Viewing Learners as Spiritual Beings by David Smith
This article, first presented as a plenary address at the CELT 2007 conference at Seattle Pacific University, explores the implications of challenging reductive understandings of learners in language classrooms and working instead with a conception of the learner as a spiritual being. Some reasons why it has been difficult to frame a place for spirituality in accounts of the language learner are described, and an example is examined of an attempt to design a sequence of classroom learning in the light of a concern for students' spiritual growth.
Article reprinted from CELEA News (Feb. 2009).
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2009-06-01
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