Aidan Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University, UK, where he is Initial Teacher Education subject head for Religious Education. He is deeply interested in the intersection between spirituality and professional identity.

• Chapter 1. Education's spiritual inheritance. The development of education and the role of faith, religion and spiritualityChapter 2. Teachers' spirituality or spiritualities?Chapter 3. Expressions of spirituality: a call to social action and challenge.Chapter 4. Spirituality beyond the classroom. Relationships and the development of the individual.Chapter 5. The future of spirituality in education.

Aidan Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University, UK, where he is Initial Teacher Education subject head for Religious Education. He is deeply interested in the intersection between spirituality and professional identity.

• Chapter 1. Education's spiritual inheritance. The development of education and the role of faith, religion and spiritualityChapter 2. Teachers' spirituality or spiritualities?Chapter 3. Expressions of spirituality: a call to social action and challenge.Chapter 4. Spirituality beyond the classroom. Relationships and the development of the individual.Chapter 5. The future of spirituality in education.

Aidan Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University, UK, where he is Initial Teacher Education subject head for Religious Education. He is deeply interested in the intersection between spirituality and professional identity.

• Chapter 1. Education's spiritual inheritance. The development of education and the role of faith, religion and spiritualityChapter 2. Teachers' spirituality or spiritualities?Chapter 3. Expressions of spirituality: a call to social action and challenge.Chapter 4. Spirituality beyond the classroom. Relationships and the development of the individual.Chapter 5. The future of spirituality in education.