背景： 近年來越來越多教育工作者關注幼兒的心靈教育問題，但對心靈教育一詞的定義卻欠缺共識。有文獻認為心靈教育等於宗教教育，也有不少文獻指出心靈教育和人本教育有密切關係，反而與宗教教育沒有太大的關係。究竟現今教育改革工作者提出的「心靈教育」，是前者還是後者？根據2006年的學前教育課程指引提出了「終身學習、全人發展」的定位，申明教育課程要以學生為本(人本教育)而言，「心靈教育」的涵意似乎與後者的關連性較大，如是說「心靈教育」的涵意對學前教育改革便有重大的影響。本研究嘗試探討幼兒教育者對「心靈教育」有否存有誤解而影響教育改革的成效。 討論焦點：本文透過文獻回顧及作者見解，嘗試指出「心靈教育」實際上與「人本教育」和「全人教育」有密切關係。「心靈教育」尤如通識教育的課程，涉及的知識範疇及層面甚廣泛，因此並不局限於推廣宗教教育。而「心靈教育」所運用的教學法以鼓勵兒童作多元化及批判性思考為主。「心靈教育」與「人本教育」和「全人教育」的理念可謂同出一轍，而與着重直接灌輸宗教義理的宗教教育沒有直接關係。 建議： 基於「心靈教育」一詞在幼兒教育改革的重要角色，作者鼓勵幼教持份者澄清傳統宗教教育與心靈教育的分別，而幼教機構應徹底分辨兩者，及依據學校本身的辦學精神及宗教背境施行其校本需要的課程及教學法。作者更希望有關當局能包容及允許有不同辦學精神、宗教及文化背境學校，讓它們擁有獲派學券的機會。
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背景：「小班教學」已於2009年9月開始分階段實施。 有教育同工反對這項改革，認為「小班教學」只會製造一種假像。亦有社會人士期望老師可以有多些時間，照顧學生的個別差異和成長；而學生家長也會期望老師可以有多些時間照顧學生的需要。學生、家長及其他社會人士對老師的期望提高了。但老師是否真的可以有多些時間去照顧學生的需要和成長呢？本文作者嘗試跟進教育同工們的關注，提出有關教育目的及關顧「心靈教育」的討論，特別是近年大陸學者所關注的「生命化教育」、「回歸生命教育」等，盼望能拋磚引玉，擦出進深探究教育使命的火花來。
討論焦點：本文嘗試從教育理念入手，闡釋小班教學計劃推行的主要精神應是在於「教學以學生為本，照顧個別學生的需要」。作者跟著提出兩個重要的課題去思考，即是：(一) 心靈教育是甚麼？ 及 (二) 如何推行心靈教育？。在跟進的討論中，作者進一步闡釋三個基本的問題，分別是：(一) 心靈是甚麼？；(二) 心靈成長需要怎樣的空間？；(三) 心靈成長需要甚麼元素？。
建議： 盼望教育當局在推行小班教學的同時能加強關注及投放更多資源去推動關顧學生心靈的教育；從事教育工作者今後亦應更多地關注學生的心靈、並能更有效地推動關顧學生心靈的教育。
總結：教育工作者的重要任務之一是要關注學生心靈的成長，小班教學的推行正是一個大好機會提醒前線教育工作者照顧個別學生的需要、包括幫助他們心靈的成長。心靈教育也就是生命化教育，須幫助學生認識自己、肯定生命的價值、發揮自我的潛能，建立更正面、更積極的人生觀。
Background: Hong Kong Education Bureau has been promoting small-class teaching in primary schools, reducing the number of pupils per class from 30 to 25. However, education frontiers were complaining that it would only create a mirage. While the society and the parents are expecting teachers to have more time and space to care for the students' individual needs in small class, the teachers in fact do not have much time for their students. It is indeed the proper time for us to re-think our educational mission underlying the small class provision and the present paper is doing precisely this fine job. Hence, it is proposed that alongside with the implementation of small class policy, more effort should be made for the concern of spirituality education in schools of Hong Kong today.
Aims or focus of discussion: It is made clear that the educational mission of small class teaching would be aimed at the caring for the students' individual needs and spiritual growth. Two issues will be raised and discussed in this paper, namely: (a) what is spirituality education?; and (b) how to promote spirituality education in schools today? The author moves on to elaborate three basic concerns for the promotion of spirituality education in schools, namely: (a) what is meant by 'spirituality'? ; (b) the kind of space needed

Background: "Spirituality Education" of children has gained more concern in recent years, but there is a lack of consensus for its meaning. Some literatures regard Spirituality Education as Religious Education, while quite many literatures have shown a close relationship between Spirituality Education and Humanistic Education, which could be unrelated with Religious Education. What is the meaning of "Spirituality Education" being mentioned by the ECE reformers after all? Is it the former or the later? The Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum (2006) proposed "Lifelong learning" and "Holistic Learning", affirming the need of child-centredness (Humanistic Education) in curriculum. If so, there is a likelihood that "Spirituality Education"has a closer connection with humanistic education than with religious education. It is therefore vital to clarify the meaning of "Spirituality Education"for fostering the current early childhood educational reform. This paper seeks to explore if Spirituality Education has been misunderstood by the early childhood education practitioners with a result that hindering the implementation of educational reform.
Focus of Discussion: Through literatures review and the author's interpretation, this paper attempts to demonstrate that Spirituality Education is actually closely related with Humanistic Education and Holistic Education. Spirituality Education shares similar elements with that of liberal studies, in which the concerned areas and aspects of knowledge are widespread. Hence, it is not limited in promoting Religious Education. And pedagogies adopted in Spirituality Education mainly emphasize diversified and critical thinking. The rationales behind Spirituality Education are closely related with that of Humanistic Education and Holistic Education. Spirituality Education has no direct relation with Religious Education which emphasizes direct transmission of religious dogma.
Suggestion: In view of the importance of the role of Spirituality