Perceptions of death among children in Sweden
The article discusses children's thoughts about death. Research was carried out in two elementary schools in Sweden among 40 children between 6 and 9 years of age, data were collected through text reading, movie viewing and dialogues with children. The main results reveal child-specific thought...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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International journal of children's spirituality
Année: 2019, Volume: 24, Numéro: 4, Pages: 415-433 |
RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion CB Spiritualité chrétienne KBE Scandinavie ZF Pédagogie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Integrative Approach
B child-specific thoughts B Children's perceptions of death B society- and time-specific thoughts |
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Résumé: | The article discusses children's thoughts about death. Research was carried out in two elementary schools in Sweden among 40 children between 6 and 9 years of age, data were collected through text reading, movie viewing and dialogues with children. The main results reveal child-specific thoughts about the end of life, i.e., ideas children construe on their own. The findings also show society- and time-specific thoughts that children take from their societal and cultural context. The article proposes an integrative approach between these two: it is only when the categories of child-specific and society- and time-specific thoughts are combined that we get a fair picture of children's perceptions of death. The main finding is that children form ideas of their own; they are not completely under the influence of their societal and cultural context. Children take over ideas from their surrounding society but they also express ideas produced by themselves. |
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ISSN: | 1469-8455 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1672627 |