Significance of Spiritual Intelligence in global education

The term 'global education' has drawn considerable attention for the last few decades along with the growing phenomenon of globalization or internationalization. While one of its two educational pillars-how to deal with global issues-has been well discussed, the other pillar-humanistic education-has not been relatively well addressed in the literature. This paper introduces a new category of intelligence-spiritual intelligence-in an attempt to show its affinity for global education. It further argues the potential role that the notion of spiritual intelligence can play as a new theoretical underpinning for global education. The paper first takes an overview of the definitions and rationales of global education and then introduces a concept of spiritual intelligence along with its psychological basis and neurological evidence