Common values for the common school? Using two values education programmes to promote 'spiritual and moral development'

This article reports on two values education programmes currently available for UK schools, which are associated with two Hindu-related organisations, the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University and the Sathya Sai Service Organisation, UK. Attention is paid to the development of the programmes, the educational context in which they seek to embed themselves and the reasons for their implementation in some schools in England. We describe how values are included in curriculum subjects and how the content of the two values programmes are conveyed in the classroom as part of pupils' spiritual and moral development.