Spirituality across Disciplines: Research and Practice:

Exploring the Outdoor Space as a Vehicle for Children’s Spiritual Development and Transformation in Early Childhood Education

“…These aspects reflect those already listed above and it might be therefore suggested that spiritual pedagogy concerns the children"s personal lives and experiences as the starting point upon which they are able to reflect on their connectedness with others and the world in order to make meaning. These aspects of relationship, imagination, creativity, and reflection are significant when considering the metaspaces of spirituality (Goodliff, 2016) in relation to outdoor learning, explored in due course.…”

“…de Souza et al (2004) especially consider connectedness as a continuum between the self and ultimate unity with "other"it is this dimension that gives meaning and purpose as already identified. Goodliff (2016) however highlights connectedness simply as kindness and compassion. It involves recognising and accepting the other.…”

“…As a method for exploration, "conceptual analysis" is used as a framework since, as Gatley (2023, p. 550) points out, such a task facilitates an interplay between "conceptual work and real-world educational consequences" that is imperative for curriculum planning and school development. Thus, following an exegesis of literature and policy concerning both spirituality and nature, the discussion, which also includes a philosophical premise, continues to explore how three meta-spaces of spiritual development inspired by nature -friendship, creativity and reflectionenhanced by real-world observations (BERA, 2018), might encourage practitioners to consider spirituality as an essential dimension of learning within and beyond the classroom (Goodliff, 2016) and notes how a spiritual pedagogy can be transformational (Bone, 2016).…”

An existential and spiritual discussion about childbirth: Contrasting spirituality at the beginning and end of life.

“…German philosopher Christina Schües (2008Schües ( , 2017 argues that in the history of philosophy, the start of life has been mostly neglected. In contrast, death has been debated intensively within philosophy, psychology, sociology, and other related disciplines (de Souza, Bone, & Watson, 2016). Schües (2008) and others (Bornemark & Smith, 2016;Lymer, 2016) argue that as long as we do not deepen our thinking and understanding of what it means to come into the world through the body of another human being, we cannot fully grasp an understanding of the self, identity, and processes of meaning.…”