RT Article
T1 Teaching humility in first-grade Christian school children
JF International journal of Christianity & education
VO 21
IS 1
SP 55
OP 71
A1 Yonker, Julie E. 1961-
A1 Wielard, Cassie J
A1 Vos, Carolyn L
A1 Tudder, Ashley M
A2 Wielard, Cassie J
A2 Vos, Carolyn L
A2 Tudder, Ashley M
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1808830008
AB 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.
K1 young children
K1 Virtues
K1 Personality
K1 Pedagogy
K1 Devotions
K1 Character strengths
DO 10.1177/2056997116671727