Jennifer Mata

Spiritual Experiences in Early Childhood Education

Four Kindergarteners, One Classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spirituality is frequently avoided in the public school classroom in an attempt to prevent controversy. However, by ignoring, preventing, or discounting spirituality, educators can also inhibit children's spiritual development. Based on qualitative research and interactions with both children and adults, Jennifer Mata argues that educators should be responsible for addressing children's spirituality in the classroom and for re-introducing these topics into early childhood education. By surveying the existing literature on spirituality, Mata offers a working definition of spirituality as an essential characteristic of humanness, which helps connect individuals to themselves, others, and to the transcendent. The book portrays stories and descriptions of four kindergarten children in their classroom setting, exploring their different modes of expressing and experiencing spirituality. Finally, Spiritual Experiences in Early Childhood Education offers a review of pedagogical strategies to nurture spirituality, for both teachers to implement in the classroom and teacher educators to facilitate in teacher preparation programs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781138287044
• ISBN-10: 1138287040
• Artikelnr.: 47174736

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Mata, Ed.D., is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the College of Education, DePaul University, USA. She received a doctorate in early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has worked in the field of early childhood education since 1995. Dr. Mata has been an infant and toddler, preschool, and kindergarten teacher in both monolingual and bilingual settings in the U.S. and abroad, and was formerly Associate Professor at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. Her research interests stem from children¿s spirituality and teacher preparation to moral development and bilingual and bicultural education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Making the Case for Spirituality Chapter One: Why Spirituality? Chapter Two: What is Spirituality? Chapter Three: Spirituality
How can it be nourished? Part II: Through the Spiritual Experiences of Children Chapter Four: Studying Children
s Spirituality Chapter Five: Ellen:
I can spell your name!
Chapter Six: Anna:
You can
t do that! Can I help?
Chapter Seven: Mark:
Uhm, uhm, uhm, dance to the music.
Chapter Eight: Matt:
I don
t know.
Chapter Nine: Looking for Commonalities and Differences in Children
s Spirituality Part III: What does this mean for Early Childhood Education? Chapter Ten: Answering Guiding Questions and tying it back to Theory and Research Chapter Eleven: What needs to be done by Teachers and Early Childhood Education Programs? References Appendix A Semi-Structured Individual Activity Protocol Appendix B Photographs Presented in the Individual Activity Appendix C Semi-Structured Group Activity Protocol Appendix D Questions Guiding Informal Conversations