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  title info:
    title: Spiritual Experiences in Early Childhood Education
    sub title: Four Kindergarteners, One Classroom
  name:
    name part: Mata, Jennifer.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (170 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Making the Case for Spirituality; 1 Why Spirituality?; 2 What Is Spirituality?; 3 Spirituality-How Can It Be Nourished?; PART II Through the Spiritual Experiences of Children; 4 Studying Children's Spirituality; 5 Ellen: "I Can Spell Your Name!"; 6 Anna: "You Can't Do That! Can I Help?"; 7 Mark: "Uhm, Uhm, Uhm, Dance to the Music."; 8 Matt: "I Don't Know."; 9 Looking for Commonalities and Differences in Children's Spirituality.
  table of contents: PART III What Does This Mean for Early Childhood Education?10 Answering Guiding Questions and Relating Back to Theory and Research; 11 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; Index.
  note: Jennifer Mata.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Early childhood education
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Early childhood education
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Early childhood teachers
    topic: In-service training
  subject:
    topic: Early childhood teachers
    topic: Training of
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION
    topic: Elementary
  classification: LB1139.23 .M376 2015eb
  classification: 372.21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Spiritual Experiences in Early Childhood Education : Four Kindergarteners, One Classroom
    name:
      name part: Mata, Jennifer.
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014
  identifier: 9781135049195
  identifier: 113504919X
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140623
    record change date: 20250816203755.1
    record identifier: in00003525350
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng