Shining Lights in Unexpected Corners: New angles on young children's spiritual development
In this article I consider how an inclusive understanding of young children's spiritual development can be enriched by research within the psychoanalytic tradition and cognitive psychology. I discuss difficulties of language and definition and suggest that thinking of spiritual experience as a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2003
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International journal of children's spirituality
Year: 2003, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-162 |
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| Summary: | In this article I consider how an inclusive understanding of young children's spiritual development can be enriched by research within the psychoanalytic tradition and cognitive psychology. I discuss difficulties of language and definition and suggest that thinking of spiritual experience as a type of experience rather than of spirituality or spiritual development may be helpful. Rather than working from a pre-determined definition, I argue that the meaning of spiritual experience is illuminated by considering a wide range of children's maturational and developmental needs and considering the boundaries of what may coherently be included as spiritual experience. In exploring research within these two traditions I suggest the integration of the personality as an end-point of spiritual experience which avoids a linear, upward idea of spiritual development. Finally, I consider the implications for research, about spiritual experience itself and for children and their teachers. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8455 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13644360304630 |