Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Implications of Spirituality in Multicultural Curricular, Pedagogical, and Research Paradigms

Brimhall-Vargas, Mark, Clark, Christine, Multicultural Education

Stop moving to become still,

and the stillness will move.

If you hold on to opposites,

you cannot understand one.

Do not live in the world of opposites.

Be careful! Never go that way.

If you make right and wrong,

your mind is lost in confusion."

-Tseng Ts'an,

Third Patriarch of Zen (2005, pp. 2-3)

Introduction

Though the United States is far from having any kind of national agreement on the role spirituality can fill in an educational context, there is a common theme that academics, religious scholars, and everyday citizens in U.S. society do agree about: we are experiencing a sense of spiritual crisis …

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Publication information: Article title: Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Implications of Spirituality in Multicultural Curricular, Pedagogical, and Research Paradigms. Contributors: Brimhall-Vargas, Mark - Author, Clark, Christine - Author. Magazine title: Multicultural Education. Volume: 15. Issue: 3 Publication date: Spring 2008. Page number: 54+. © 2005 Caddo Gap Press. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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