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ERIC Number: EJ1035238
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 13
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ISSN: EISSN-1469-8455
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Teacher, I Had a Dream: A Glimpse of the Spiritual Domain of Children Using Project-Based Learning
Harris, Kathleen
International Journal of Children's Spirituality, v18 n3 p281-293 2013
Children's dreams have the potential to awaken feelings, question attitudes and inspire new learning experiences to deepen awareness of spiritual development. Both guidance and spiritual environments created by nurturing educators and parents foster dreams that captivate and motivate children to increase their spiritual self-awareness, leading them to ask open-ended questions about what is real and what is make-believe. This paper offers a discussion of the importance of children's dreams accompanied by teaching opportunities using project-based learning to channel creative thinking and interconnecting within a child's culture and community, promoting balance, integrity and reciprocal relationships. Project-based learning has the capability to offer responsive and holistic support of the spiritual domain of children within a caring, welcoming community. Using project-based learning in classrooms shapes the agenda to stimulate wonder, ask inquiring questions and promotes creativity and encourages multiple ways to represent thinking in graphic, written and oral language.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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