RT Article
T1 Children’s spiritual development in forced displacement: a human rights perspective
JF International journal of children's spirituality
VO 13
IS 2
SP 129
OP 143
A1 ojalehto, bethany
A1 Wang, Qi
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/177967175X
AB This article provides a synthesis of current research and theories of spiritual development in forced displacement from a human rights perspective. Spirituality, understood as a cognitive‐cultural construct, has shown positive impact on children’s development through both collective and individual processes and across ecological domains of the physical world, the community and the individual child. Findings support a human rights framework of spiritual development that privileges the child’s and the community’s own understandings of human development, and this framework may further serve as an important resource for scaffolding refugee children’s development. The study of spiritual development will enable more effective human rights protection of child development in situations of war and forced displacement.
K1 Child Development
K1 Human Rights
K1 Refugee
K1 Spiritual Development
DO 10.1080/13644360801965933