Teaching humility in first-grade Christian school children
Four classes of first-grade children at a Christian school took pre- and post-tests measuring humility. Two intervention classes had devotional lessons on humility and two comparison classes did not. For one week, devotional lessons featured humility-related children's literature, cognitively a...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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International journal of Christianity & education
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-71 |
IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology RF Christian education; catechetics |
Further subjects: | B
Pedagogy
B Devotions B young children B Personality B Character strengths B Virtues |
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Summary: | Four classes of first-grade children at a Christian school took pre- and post-tests measuring humility. Two intervention classes had devotional lessons on humility and two comparison classes did not. For one week, devotional lessons featured humility-related children's literature, cognitively appropriate discussions, writing about humility, and teacher-reinforced behaviors of humility. Intervention classes showed a slight increase in humility relative to comparison classes. After statistical control for personality traits of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, increases in humility disappeared; personality could be a mediator of humility assimilation. This research provides feasibility of teaching and measuring humility in young Christian school children. |
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ISSN: | 2056-9971 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Christianity & education
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2056997116671727 |