Developmental Psychology and Young Childrenâs Religious Education sets out to identify the conceptual pre-requisites for young childrenâs religious education learning and clearly highlights the challenges that children and their teachers encounter in the RE educational process. Based on a study with 431 children aged 5 to 7 years from different schools, faith and non-faith, and 47 teachers from the same schools as the children, this book offers an insightful look into younger childrenâs religious education, providing statistical evidence to dismantle the belief that young children lack the ability to conceptualise God in abstract terms. The information obtained from these children and their teachers reveals a major discrepancy between the teachersâ perceptions of young childrenâs conceptual abilities for RE learning, on the one hand, and childrenâs actual abilities revealed in their responses throughout the study, on the other. Based on the evidence described in the volume, Petrovich argues that teacher-training courses for primary RE need to be designed to include a substantial component of contemporary developmental research that is of direct relevance to childrenâs conceptual abilities and understanding of abstract concepts. Developmental Psychology and Young Childrenâs Religious Education is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental psychology, religious education, teacher education, education studies and cultural anthropology.
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