Developmental Psychology and Young Children-s Religious Education sets out to identify the conceptual pre-requisites for young children-s 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 children-s 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 teachers- perceptions of young children-s conceptual abilities for RE learning, on the one hand, and children-s actual abilities revealed in their responses throughout the study, on the other. Based on the evidence descr
