Aostre Johnson

Dr. Aostre Johnson is a professor of Education at Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont. She has served many roles at the college including Director of Graduate Education. She helped establish the school's concentration in "Arts in Education." Currently she is coordinator of the graduate concentrations in curriculum and elementary education, as well as the self-designed concentrations. She is also the coordinator of a Spirituality in Education Program. She teaches curriculum and pedagogy courses in both the undergraduate and the graduate departments. She has published many articles in the areas of creativity, multiple intelligences and spirituality as they relate to human development and education.

A strong area of expertise is the study of spirituality in education and she is an editor of a recent book, "Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions".

External links

* [http://www.smcvt.edu/graduate/programs/ged/faculty.asp Saint Michael's College - Faculty]
* [http://www.smcvt.edu/admission/spotlight/spotlight.asp?strSpotlightID=328 spotlight interview on St. Michael's Web Site]
* [http://www.public.asu.edu/~cpowers/Many%20Ways%20of%20Understanding%20and%20Educating%20Spirit%20--%20by%20Aostre%20N_%20Johnson.htm Many Ways of Understanding and Educating Spirit] from Classroom Leadership Magazine
* [http://www.search-institute.org/research/ReligiousPerspectives.html Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions] Dr. Johnson was an editor of this book which looks at "how religious traditions have understood and cultivated the life of the spirit in childhood and adolescence." ISBN 074254463X