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dc.contributor.authorProf. HUE Ming Taken_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T03:45:26Z-
dc.date.available2024-01-11T03:45:26Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.citationPastoral Care in Education, 2009, Vol. 27(1), pp. 63-76.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0264-3944-
dc.identifier.issn1468-0122-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/8852-
dc.description.abstractPromotion of students’ spiritual development is one of the goals of pastoral care in schools. The heritage of Chinese calligraphy is traditionally used as a way to enhance an individual’s self‐reflection and cultivation, and has an educational value in spiritual development. This study aims to examine the cultural meaning of Chinese calligraphy and its practices in general, and specifically its connection to spiritualism. The methodologies of narrative approach and textual analysis were employed. Accordingly, the narratives of five practitioners’ personal experiences, including the researcher’s, captured in unstructured interviews, plus selected historical texts on calligraphy will be examined. This article suggests that calligraphy serves more than a utilitarian function. The value of spiritualism underlying this art has also been used as a practice of personal development and spiritual discipline, which leads practitioners to reflect in their mind and heart. This value is universal, and can be agreed upon in a pluralistic society and applied to all schools with different cultural backgrounds and also outside of religious traditions. Lastly this article draws school practitioners’ attention to the importance of calligraphy for spiritual development of students and its implications for the promotion of pastoral care and spiritual education.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPastoral Care in Educationen_US
dc.titlePromotion of spiritual development: exploration of the self and spiritualism through the practice of Chinese calligraphyen_US
dc.typePeer Reviewed Journal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02643940902733886-
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crisitem.author.deptDepartment of Counselling & Psychology-
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