1st Edition
Developmental Psychology and Young Children’s Religious Education
By Olivera Petrovich
Copyright 2022
134 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Developmental Psychology and Young Children’s Religious Education sets out to identify the conceptual pre-requisites for young children’s religious education learning and clearly highlights the challenges that children and their teachers encounter in the RE educational process.
Based on a study with 431 children aged 5 to 7 years from different schools, faith and non-faith, and 47... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Research design and fieldwork: Rationale and method
3. Children’s perceptions of and attitudes to school RE: Interview findings
4. Everyday religious understanding: The natural-theological reasoning test
5. Children’s concepts of God: Everyday and RE-based
6. Teachers’ perceptions of young children’s abilities for RE learning
7. Religious understanding in the early years: What can RE learn from young children?
8. Conclusion
Biography
Olivera Petrovich is a developmental psychologist in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research deals with the development of religious understanding in children and adults from different cultures.
