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- Title
Kindergartners Explore spirituality.
- Authors
Mardell, Ben; Abo-Zena, Mona M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a project for early childhood teachers and families who are interested to help young children in developing positive views on diverse spiritual beliefs at a laboratory school at Tuffs University in Medford, Massachusetts. It offers the reason why the project in undertaken, what did the project involved and what did the children learn. It stresses the importance of guided explorations about differences in beliefs of children because it develops healthy attitudes about spiritual plurality, and cultivate meaningful home-school relations with diverse families.
- Subjects
MEDFORD (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; TRAINING of early childhood teachers; LABORATORY schools; LEARNING; BELIEF &; doubt; SPIRITUALITY; CHILDREN; FAMILY services
- Publication
YC: Young Children, 2010, Vol 65, Issue 4, p12
- ISSN
1538-6619
- Publication type
Article