Retracted article: Lived and Expressed Spirituality of Children: Insights from a Kindergarten Setting

Abstract

Children’s spirituality is often neglected in scholarly literature. To address this gap in literature, a qualitative study into how four kindergarten children lived and expressed their spirituality was carried over a six-month period in a kindergarten classroom in Tata school. This study sought to find out how children lived and expressed their spirituality; and what evokes spiritual experiences within the classroom. The sources of data comprised semi-structured individual activity, semi-structured-group activity, informal conversation and focused observation. From, a grounded theoretical standpoint, the study suggests that spirituality of a child is any experience that is either inwardly or outwardly activated. Which invariably makes a child experience joy and wonder. The study’s findings unearthed diversity among the children regarding how they lived and expressed their spirituality. Their lived spirituality was expressed through movement, relating to others and imaginative play.