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| Published: March 23, 2021
Qualitative impact of spirituality in higher education
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Gargi College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.097/20210901
DOI: 10.25215/0901.097
ABSTRACT
Higher education system is currently challenged to focus more purposely on students’ holistic development, including nurturing the spiritual identities of students. Today students experience a disconnect between their academic studies and personal exploration of meaning in life. In order to understand the qualitative impact of spirituality in higher education, the present study aimed to make a comparative study of 60 undergraduate students each from Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya (DSVV), Hardwar, a University that claims to seamlessly integrate secular inputs with spiritual values of ancient Gurukul system and the conventional Delhi University colleges. A semi structured questionnaire, focusing on academic and non-academic experiences of students, perceived changes and self- growth was used for data collection. Qualitative analysis of data was done. Results indicated that the two groups differed on the different dimensions of semi structured questionnaire. A potential consequence of this research is that it will strengthen institutional initiatives and will encourage educators to consider the importance of students’ spiritual development when they develop academic and co-curricular programme.
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© 2021, Pant P.
Received: December 31, 2020; Revision Received: March 10, 2021; Accepted: March 23, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.097/20210901
10.25215/0901.097
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