Children and Spirituality: Searching for Meaning and Connectedness

Children and Spirituality: Searching for Meaning and Connectedness
ISBN-10
1846427541
ISBN-13
9781846427541
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2008-01-15
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Author
Brendan Hyde

Description

Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing. These characteristics can be observed in children if those who work with them know what to look for and are alert to the time, place and space in which children find themselves. This book provides ways in which schoolteachers and parents can nurture and foster these particular characteristics of children's spirituality. It also considers two factors, material pursuit and trivialising, which may inhibit children's expression of their spirituality. Children and Spirituality will be of great interest to educators, policy makers, parents, and others who work with and seek to nurture the spirituality of children.

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