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Publication Date: 2009-Feb
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The Divine Dreams of a Sample of South African Children: The Gateway to Their Spirituality
Potgieter, Ferdinand J.; van der Walt, Johannes L.; Wolhuter, Charl C.
International Journal of Children's Spirituality, v14 n1 p31-46 Feb 2009
As part of a research project on religion, spirituality and education, the authors attended to the role that children's divine dreams could play in religious education (RE). They contend that such dreams can indeed be used by RE teachers as the gateway to understanding the spirituality of their learners. They defend their claim by firstly developing a conceptual-theoretical framework with respect to religion, spirituality and children's divine dreams, and then presenting the results of an explorative quantitative-qualitative investigation in three schools. They find their claim to have been vindicated, and suggest that although RE teachers should not necessarily teach divine dreams "per se," they should, nevertheless, explore the possibility that (at least some of) the contents of children's divine dreams may be useful for the purpose of teaching them RE "from" religion itself, rather than teaching them only "about" religion. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Religion, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Spiritual Development, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Grade 7, Early Adolescents, Interviews, Psychological Patterns, Violence, Fear, Racial Bias, Social Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 6; Grade 7
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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