Hello Sarah and all,

 I have no experience with actually teaching spirituality to undergraduates. However, I am aware that for a person to effectively respect another person’s spirituality they must have some awareness/respect of their own. I would suggest the way to create reverence and beauty online would be in the words you use to help the students think about and possibly discuss those times when they feel most moved by life... seeing a sunset, the smell of fresh cut grass, the experience of a first kiss,  the sensation of falling in love, being at the birth of a child...  I would suggest they discuss how they felt emotionally and physically at such moments, and how such moments have brought meaning to their own lives.

That could be a way to set the scene

Best wishes, Jenny

 

Jenny Parratt  PhD
Midwife, Conjoint Senior Lecturer

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health
The University of Newcastle, NSW
P.O. Mandurang Vic 3551 Australia
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Hello everyone

I know this isn't strictly a research question, but I know  lot of educators are on this discussion list so I hope you don't mind me asking this question.

I have been given the brief of developing an online module on spirituality for undergraduate midwifery students. I am not really sure how to go about it in the online asynchronous/synchronous environment. I wondered if anyone had suggestions or advice about how I could approach this. I want to create the same sense of reverence and beauty online as I would  (hopefully) in the F2F setting.

best wishes, Sarah

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