Notions of Spiritual Capital - A Matter of Extinction or Evolution for Social Education?

This paper describes the results of a study that examined students’ conceptions of the term “Spiritual Capital.” Participants (N = 56) included students in the Colleges of Business and Education at a public Midwestern university. Results showed that almost half of the participants considered spiri...

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Main Author:	Thomas Lucey
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Journal of Social Studies Education Research 2021-03-01
Series:	Journal of Social Studies Education Research
Subjects:	spiritual capital social studies higher education
Online Access:	https://jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/view/2543

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title	Notions of Spiritual Capital - A Matter of Extinction or Evolution for Social Education?
title_short	Notions of Spiritual Capital - A Matter of Extinction or Evolution for Social Education?
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publisher	Journal of Social Studies Education Research
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description	This paper describes the results of a study that examined students’ conceptions of the term “Spiritual Capital.” Participants (N = 56) included students in the Colleges of Business and Education at a public Midwestern university. Results showed that almost half of the participants considered spiritual capital to represent a concept related to spirituality. Participants also mentioned values, religion, economics, or broader society in their definitions though other participants acknowledged their uncertainty regarding the term. Results of Chi-Square tests and Fisher’s exact test indicated no significant relationship between participants’ major and any of the coding categories used.
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Notions of Spiritual Capital - A Matter of Extinction or Evolution for Social Education?

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