A Conceptualization of Children's Spirituality Arising out of Recent Research

Autor/in	Moriarty, Micheline Wyn
Titel	A Conceptualization of Children's Spirituality Arising out of Recent Research
Quelle	In: International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 16 (2011) 3, S.271-285 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-436X
DOI	10.1080/1364436X.2011.617730
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Young Children; Religious Factors; Models; Research; Data Analysis; Child Development; Developmental Stages; Identification (Psychology); Self Concept; Elementary School Students; Interviews; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Frühe Kindheit; Analogiemodell; Forschung; Auswertung; Kindesentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Hermeneutik; Australien
Abstract	This paper presents a model of children's spirituality which provided a structure for conducting some recent research and for analysing the findings. The model consisted of four dimensions of spirituality derived from the literature, namely consciousness, relationality, roadmap and identity, with a central integrating concept of worldview. The hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of material gained from semi-structured interviews with state primary school children led to the conclusion that these four dimensions are closely interlinked, and provided some evidence that children's spirituality progresses towards a meaningful, integrated sense of Identity. This led to the production of a modified form of this model which provided a progressing, multidimensional conceptual framework which complements the conceptualisations of other researchers in the field of children's spirituality. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10