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Abstract
Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing. These characteristics can be observed in children if those who work with them know what to look for and are alert to the time, place and space in which children find themselves.
This book provides ways in which schoolteachers and parents can nurture and foster these particular characteristics of children's spirituality. It also considers two factors, material pursuit and trivialising, which may inhibit children's expression of their spirituality.
Children and Spirituality will be of great interest to educators, policy makers, parents, and others who work with and seek to nurture the spirituality of children.
Brenden Hyde has produced a wide-ranging and useful piece of research...This book is well organised with useful notes and an excellent bibliography. As such it would provide a helpful resource for future research.
The Christian Parapsychologist
This is the kind of book which does a lot for broadening our views of what spirituality is about...a very holistic and insightful book with down-to-earth guidelines.
Home Education Advisory Service Bulletin
A fascinating book... If it makes education policy makers, teachers in school and church and parents aware of the spirituality of children and how they can nurture and foster this, our children will indeed grow in body, mind and spirit.
Practical Theology
Brendan Hyde PhD is a lecturer in the National School of Religious Education at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, and a Member of the Australian College of Educators. Brendan has authored several scholarly articles and book chapters exploring the spirituality of children, and he regularly presents his work at international conferences.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction: working with men for gender equality | |||
| 2. ‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment in Rwanda | |||
| 3. Promoting male involvement in family planning in Vietnam and India: HealthBridge experience | |||
| 4. ‘Before the war, I was a man’: men and masculinities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo | |||
| 5. Sympathetic advocates: male parliamentarians sharing responsibility for gender equality | |||
| 6. ‘Because I am a man, I should be gentle to my wife and my children’: positive masculinity to stop gender-based violence in a coastal district in Vietnam | |||
| 7. Domestic violence prevention through the Constructing Violence-free Masculinities programme: an experience from Peru | |||
| 8. ‘One Man Can’: shifts in fatherhood beliefs and parenting practices following a gender-transformative programme in Eastern Cape, South Africa | |||
| 9. Whose turn to do the dishes? Transforming gender attitudes and behaviours among very young adolescents in Nepal | |||
| 10. Where the boys are: engaging young adolescent boys in support of girls’ education and leadership | |||
| 11. Men’s involvement in gender equality – European perspectives | |||
| 12. Resources |