Spirituality and Self in Preadolescents: Implications for a connected curriculum

Bosacki, Sandra

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“…For instance, excerpts that encourage adolescents' reflection, from Sylvia Plath's (1996) The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, Judy Blume's (1972) Blubber, andMargaret Atwood's (1988) Cat's Eye, could be used to illustrate the landscape of adolescents' private worlds and inner voices. Moreover, consistent with work in positive youth psychology (Seligman, 2002), as well as our past and ongoing work on adolescents' psychosocial development and mental health (Bosacki, 2002;Bosacki et al, 2020), future research in this area may provide a framework for a holistic curriculum that aims to foster both inter-and intrapersonal competencies.…”

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Silence, Solitude and Social Cognition in Adolescence: Implications for Research and Education

Bosacki

2020

PCh

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What are the key issues regarding silence, solitude, and social cognition in young people's lives, and their implications for education and emotional health? To answer such questions, the current paper will explore the question: How do young teens use their ability to understand other's minds and emotions to navigate their relationships with themselves, their peers, and during times of silences and solitude? To address this question, this paper critically examines how mentallisation may help youth to navigate their experiences of solitude and relationships. Examples from recent and ongoing cross-sectional and longitudinal research with adolescents are discussed within the context of education and developmental psychology research. Finally, I discuss how findings from developmental social cognitive research can be applied to the classroom, to help develop innovative strategies that honour,

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Section: So What? Educational Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 56%

Silence, Solitude and Social Cognition in Adolescence: Implications for Research and Education

Bosacki

2020

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“…Fortunately, in recent years, the inner world of the child has become of great interest to some professionals working with children (Bosacki, 2002). Recognizing that spirituality is an integral part of in the life, some services and programs in the West for adolescents have gradually moved toward stronger emphases on the whole child development with a focus on spiritual health (e.g., Calhoun, 2004).…”

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Exploring the Spiritual Needs of Adolescent Girls

Zhang

Tan

2010

Religion & Education

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Arguing that spiritual growth is part and parcel of the personal, social and emotional development, education and care of all adolescents, this paper explores some key issues on the spiritual needs of adolescent girls within the context of holistic education. Spiritual needs refer primarily to the search for personal meaning, purpose and identity in life, as well as connectedness with others, whether divine or human. Adopting a theoretical approach based on a literature review on the development issues adolescent girls face, this paper identifies and discusses four spiritual needs of adolescent girls: body image, a sense of self, relationships, and future. This paper further suggests some practical ways for educators to foster spiritual development in the adolescent girls.

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“…Thus, spirituality is a signifier with contested and deferred meaning, with its constructions varying from self-transcendence (Benson et al, 2003), to a mystical transcendental experience (Gray, 2006), to a search for the sacred side of life (Engebretson, 2004;Pargament, 1999). Psychological discourses have variously constructed spirituality as neurobiology (Hay & Socha, 2005), cognition (Niederman, 1999), intelligence (Emmons, 2000a;2000b), meaning-making (Bosacki, 2002), emotion (Emmons & Paloutzian, 2003) or behaviour (Spilka et al, 2003). It has further been viewed as both vital and/or animating energy (Fisher, 2000), and/or a relationship with the self, others, the environment and God (Fisher, 2000;Hay & Nye, 1998), or a combination of all of the above.…”

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Narrating <i>spiritual well-being</i> in relationship to positive psychology and religion

Rooyen

Beukes

2009

Koers

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Narrating spiritual well-being in relationship to positive psychology and religion Constructed as new and located in the discourse of positive psychology, "spiritual well-being" is a signifier with a (his)story in which one possible reading is highlighted in this postmodern (de)constructive narrative. The construction of "spiritual + wellbeing" could be narrated as a secularisation of the religious by positivist psy-complex knowledges, where spiritual well-being is reconstructed as a measurable outcome. Or it could be narrated as a "spiritualisation" of the psy-complex by religious knowledges, with measurable well-being becoming dependent on the pursuit of the postmodern, multiple-storied spiritual/ religious features. As the psy-complex has followed medicine from a focus on pathology to a focus on holistic wellness, it has found itself in the religious realm which it has simultaneously centred and marginalised. Additionally, as the psy-complex has moved from measuring illness to measuring wellness, it could be described as having constructed new categories of non-wellbeing or ill-being. Opsomming Interpretasie van geestelike welsyn in verwantskap met positiewe sielkunde en godsdiens Geestelike welsyn, as "nuwe" konsep en geplaas binne die kader van positiewe sielkunde, is 'n aanduider met 'n (geskiedkundige) storie. Een moontlike vertolking hiervan kan in hierdie

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Spirituality and Self in Preadolescents: Implications for a connected curriculum

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Silence, Solitude and Social Cognition in Adolescence: Implications for Research and Education

Silence, Solitude and Social Cognition in Adolescence: Implications for Research and Education

Exploring the Spiritual Needs of Adolescent Girls

Narrating <i>spiritual well-being</i> in relationship to positive psychology and religion

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