Teachers’ spirituality as an element of social action. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of primary teachers’ understanding and expression of spirituality

Gillespie, Aidan

doi:10.1080/1364436x.2019.1684880

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“…Thus, if a child's love for parents, in particular, its cultivation by the teacher at different periods of personality growth, has many solutions in pedagogical science, then in the teacher's practice there are even more options that turned out to be suitable for real children. For example, these are studies of expressing spirituality in elementary school [15], spiritual well-being of a child [16,17], caring relationships between a child and an adult for better development [18], attachment relationships between a child and an adult [1][2][3][4].…”

Section: Cultivating a Child's Love For Parents: History And Contempo...mentioning

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Cultivating a child’s love for parents as a spiritual practice: pedagogical aspect

2022

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Spiritual education of a child is one of the most difficult and important areas of educational research. The way of family life has always been reflected in the moral character of a person. The emotional and moral atmosphere reigning in the family, the desire to share responsibility, the level of mutual understanding and mutual respect, parental love and reciprocal feelings of a child, family traditions – all these lay the foundation for spirituality. Teachers who work with younger students often observe their interactions with their parents. Each child and each parent is individual, and relationships between them develop differently. In this article, the authors reflect on teachers’ role in cultivating love, where the theoretical concept of “from child to parent” is the basis for study. The article identifies the types of a child’s love for parents, reveals the markers of manifestation of a child’s love for parents, which is positively associated with the cultural and social environment. In addition, the basic pedagogical characteristics for cultivating a child’s love for their parents in the context of the school are proposed.

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Section: Cultivating a Child's Love For Parents: History And Contempo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultivating a child’s love for parents as a spiritual practice: pedagogical aspect

2022

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How U.S. Early Childhood Educators Understand Children’s Spirituality: A Framework of Essence, Origin, and Action

Mata-McMahon,

Haslip,

Hossain

2024

Early Childhood Educ J

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This study explores in-service early childhood educators’ understanding of children’s spirituality. Utilizing the recently validated instrument, Early Childhood Educators’ Spiritual Practices in the Classroom (ECE-SPC), responses to the question, “What do you understand children’s spirituality to be?” were analyzed. Participants included 318 educators working in secular educational settings with children ages zero to eight years across 36 U.S. states. Findings reveal a multilayered understanding of children’s spirituality. Through a grounded theory approach to data analysis using in-vivo codes in initial and axial coding, participants’ responses were organized in a response framework comprised of three main categories of understanding spirituality: (1) as Essence in itself (f 208), (2) as its place of Origin (f 122), and (3) as Actions in relation to others or as ways in which it is practiced (f 86). This framework contributes to constructing a shared understanding of children’s spirituality to build efforts toward promoting holistic development and intentionally nurturing the spiritual domain.

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The potential of ‘wonder’ to engage children’s spirituality: it’s so much more than pondering

Robinson

2022

International Journal of Children's Spirituality

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Teachers’ spirituality as an element of social action. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of primary teachers’ understanding and expression of spirituality

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Cultivating a child’s love for parents as a spiritual practice: pedagogical aspect

Cultivating a child’s love for parents as a spiritual practice: pedagogical aspect

How U.S. Early Childhood Educators Understand Children’s Spirituality: A Framework of Essence, Origin, and Action

The potential of ‘wonder’ to engage children’s spirituality: it’s so much more than pondering

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