Brendan Hyde

Children and Spirituality

Searching for Meaning and Connectedness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. It will be of great interest to educators, policy makers, and parents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781843105893
• ISBN-10: 1843105896
• Artikelnr.: 23076950

Autorenporträt

Brendan Hyde, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the National School of Religious Education at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia, where he was also awarded his Ph.D. Brendan's research interest is in the spirituality of children. His research interests include exploring the characteristics of children's spirituality, and the implication these have for education in the primary school context.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Preface. Part 1: Preparing the Ground. 1. Introduction.
2. Mapping the Terrain. 3. Research on the Spirituality of Childhood. 4. An
Approach for Understanding the Expressions of Human Life. Part 2: The
Characteristics of Children's Spirituality. A Preface to Part 2. 5. The
Felt Sense. 6. Integrating Awareness. 7. Weaving the Threads of Meaning. 8.
Spiritual Questing. 9. Factors that Inhibit Spirituality. 10. Nurturing the
Spiritual Dimension of Children's Lives. Notes. Bibliography. Subject
Index. Author Index.