Gateways to Spirituality: Pre-School through Grade Twelve focuses on spiritual formation in American pre-collegiate education. Its fifteen contributors advance distinctive views about the connections that exist between spirituality, learning, social and ethical consciousness, and community life. The book will be useful to educators who wish to acknowledge youth spirituality in ways that are informed, fair, constitutional, and inclusive. School administrators, teachers, counselors, and chaplains who are interested in issues of liberal education and spirituality, who wish to take religious diversity and spiritual identity seriously, and who offer courses in religious studies will find Gateways to Spirituality an invaluable resource.

The Editor: Peter W. Cobb received a B. A. in political science from Knox College; an M.A. in international relations from The American University; and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He taught religion and served as a school administrator for twenty-four years prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education from 1997-2003. Mr. Cobb is President of Cobb & Associates, an Atlanta-based consulting firm dedicated to «helping schools and families keep the heart in mind». His articles have appeared in CSEE Connections and Independent School magazine.