A conceptualization of children’s spirituality arising out of recent research
This paper presents a model of children’s spirituality which provided a structure for conducting some recent research and for analysing the findings. The model consisted of four dimensions of spirituality derived from the literature, namely consciousness, relationality, roadmap and identity, with a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2011
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International journal of children's spirituality
Year: 2011, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-285 |
| Further subjects: | B
Relationships
B Consciousness B Spiritual Development B Identity |
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| Summary: | This paper presents a model of children’s spirituality which provided a structure for conducting some recent research and for analysing the findings. The model consisted of four dimensions of spirituality derived from the literature, namely consciousness, relationality, roadmap and identity, with a central integrating concept of worldview. The hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of material gained from semi-structured interviews with state primary school children led to the conclusion that these four dimensions are closely interlinked, and provided some evidence that children’s spirituality progresses towards a meaningful, integrated sense of Identity. This led to the production of a modified form of this model which provided a progressing, multidimensional conceptual framework which complements the conceptualisations of other researchers in the field of children’s spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8455 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2011.617730 |