Taking a children's rights perspective on children's spirituality

The right to spiritual development has had little attention in public educational policy. This is more challenging, considering the fact of increasing religious diversity and the focus on spirituality and religion in that context, as well as the way the spiritual is mentioned in documents on childre...

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Veröffentlicht: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: International journal of children's spirituality
Jahr: 2017, Band: 22, Heft: 1, Seiten: 24-35
IxTheo Notationen:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität
NBE Anthropologie
TK Neueste Zeit
XA Recht
weitere Schlagwörter:B moral and legal rights
B Spiritual Development
B Children's rights
B Korczak
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Zusammenfassung:The right to spiritual development has had little attention in public educational policy. This is more challenging, considering the fact of increasing religious diversity and the focus on spirituality and religion in that context, as well as the way the spiritual is mentioned in documents on children's rights. This article traces the development from the first documents on the rights of the child and responses to these documents. It is argued that educational policy and practice should pay more attention to the way children's spirituality is included in the documents. This is an issue of general education as well as of moral philosophy. The article concludes with a claim: spiritual development is a matter of survival and flourishing as human beings, and considering this in the framework of children's rights could mean exploring spiritual sources in one's own faith as well as in other faiths.
ISSN:1469-8455
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2016.1276050