Paul D. Spears
Books
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1. Education For Human Flourishing
This book argues for reorienting schooling around the goal of human flourishing, offering a clear conceptual framework and practical guidance for parents, teachers, and school leaders to cultivate character, meaning, and well-being in children. It draws on philosophy and developmental science to define flourishing, explains how curricula, classroom practices, assessment, and school culture can be redesigned to support moral and intellectual virtues, and provides concrete strategies and examples for fostering relational trust, purpose, and civic responsibility. The author's aim is to move education beyond narrow academic metrics toward a holistic formation that prepares young people to live full, ethical, and socially engaged lives.
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