Spirituality Matters for Holistic Education

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of holistic education with focus on spirituality as critical element of it for effectiveness. For this, it tries to explore spiritual practices with importance of it in education for holistic development, moves to reviewing literature on holistic education, then highlights UNESCO of four pillars of education connecting them with holistic education. Further, it tries to underpinning selected spirituality-focused school practices in a way they implement pedagogical strategies and describes Buddhist practice as best having holistic elements for all round development of child and ends up with conclusion that Buddhist education can be appropriate avenue to see possibilities of inclusion of spiritual elements in education.