The Identification of Four Characteristics of Children's Spirituality in Australian Catholic Primary Schools

Autor/in	Hyde, Brendan
Titel	The Identification of Four Characteristics of Children's Spirituality in Australian Catholic Primary Schools
Quelle	In: International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 13 (2008) 2, S.117-127 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-436X
Schlagwörter	Catholic Schools; Qualitative Research; Catholics; Identification; Religious Factors; Phenomenology; Religious Education; Foreign Countries; Primary Education; Children; Teaching Methods; Hermeneutics; Perception; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Katholische Schule; Qualitative Forschung; Katholik; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Ausland; Primarbereich; Child; Kind; Kinder; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hermeneutik; Wahrnehmung; Australien
Abstract	In taking its theoretical impetus from hermeneutic phenomenology, the qualitative research reported in this paper aimed to identify characteristics of children's spirituality in Australian Catholic primary schools. The videotaped life expressions of two groups of six children in each of three Australian Catholic primary schools formed the texts of this study. A reflection upon the texts, guided by van Manen's lifeworld existentials, resulted in the identification of four characteristics of these children's spirituality--the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing. In the light of these findings, some pedagogical implications for nurturing spirituality through the primary religious education curriculum in Catholic schools are proposed. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10