Toward a Spiritual Pedagogy: Meaning, Practice, and Applications in Management Education

Abstract

This article focuses on how spirituality can be used in management education by exploring its meaning, by encouraging educators to examine their own spiritual perspectives and practices, and by illustrating the value of spirituality as both an analytic tool and a course topic. Specifically, the author derives a common view of spirituality and then discusses how practicing spiritual values can influence pedagogical processes of teaching and learning. She also considers how spirituality can influence pedagogical content by teaching spirituality as a management topic using, among other teaching methods, a case based on a real-life organizational tragedy analyzed from a spiritual perspective.