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Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Childrens Spirituality is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The cultivation of university students’ spiritual wellbeing in holistic education: longitudinal mixed-methods study	14
Silenced by performativity: The child’s right to a spiritual voice in an age of neoliberal educational imperatives	14
Relational spirituality in K-12 education: a multi-case study	13
Primary validation of Children Spiritual Intelligence Scale in a sample of Latvian elementary school pupils	7
Developing a definition of spiritual health for Canadian young people: a qualitative study	6
Investigating the impact of covid-19 socialisation restrictions on children’s spiritual well-being: case studies from Poland and the UK	5
The potential of ‘wonder’ to engage children’s spirituality: it’s so much more than pondering	5
Introducing the Junior Spiritual Health Scale (JSHS): assessing the impact of religious affect on spiritual health among 8- to 11-year-old students	5
Teacher voice for reflections on practice: using the voice-centred relational method to determine early childhood teachers’ understanding of spirituality	4
Revisiting some half-forgotten ideas on children’s spirituality	3
Effectiveness of spirituality-based problem solving on moral responsibility, and spiritual education of students	3
Intentional spiritual care for sick children: A beacon for decreasing stress and nurturing spirituality	3
The views of social work practitioners with regards to religion and spirituality at the interface of social work practice with children and adolescents	3
Religious education in Asia: spiritual diversity in globalized times	2
Spiritual literacy: non-religious reconceptualisation for education in a secular environment	2
A study of spirituality in children’s books based on the works of Douglas Wood	2
Spirituality and subjectivity in Waldorf (Steiner) education: a postmodern Bildung perspective	2
Children’s spirituality: personal reflections on International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (IJCS)	2
Analysis of spiritual awareness in heavenly gifts curriculum of second grade elementary schools in Iran	1
Editorial: children’s life, religiosity and spirituality matter: perspectives of special groups and their related adults	1
Adolescents’ Buddhist belief in correlation with demographic factors: An exploratory sequential mixed method research	1
Understanding the spiritual and emotional needs of siblings of children who have a rare disease through the lens of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs	1
Spirituality as predictors of career adaptability among Chinese youths: a cross-sectional study	1
Validation study of the Early Childhood Educators’ Spiritual Practices in the Classroom (ECE-SPC) instrument using Rasch	1
Kindergarten teachers’ spiritual well-being impacts holistic early childhood education	1

Children’s life and spirituality development and their educations: sensing, spaces, and sources of influence	1
Learning social literacy	0
Supporting young children of immigrants and refugees: the promise and practices of early care and learning	0
Children’s unexplained experiences in a post materialist world: what children can teach us about the mystery of being human	0
Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice	0
Early childhood Jewish education: multicultural, gender, and constructivist perspectives	0
Barriers to young children’s spiritual growth – and some pointers to how these can be overcome	0
The fluidity of Finnish youths’ Personal worldviews	0
Life and moral education in Greater China	0
Supporting modern teaching in Islamic schools: pedagogical best practice for teachers	0
Global perspectives on teaching and learning: Paths in Islamic education	0
Spirituality, football and Olivia: how connectedness inspires hope through difficult situations	0
Spirituality in education: professional accounts of the impact of spirituality on education	0
Religiosity, gender, and correlates of academic dishonesty among children: a Jordanian study	0
Children’s Spirituality in Early Childhood Education: Theory to Practice Children’s Spirituality in Early Childhood Education: Theory to Practice , Jennifer Mata-McMahon	0
Where to and why? Children on meaning and value from a new materiality perspective	0
Pedagogical innovation for children’s agency in the classroom; building knowledge together	0
The emergence of spiritual self-care in parents with disabled children	0
The spiritual state of children with academic mothers	0
The transcendent brain: spirituality in the age of science	0
Developmental psychology and young children’s religious education	0
Sociocultural perspectives on children’s spirituality	0
Spirituality and creativity in the early childhood context	0
One teacher’s journey towards a spiritual pedagogy – an auto ethnographical narrative of epistemological beliefs and practice	0
The intuitive Buddhist - psychological type as a new hermeneutic of Buddhist diversity in the West	0
Exploring five children’s experiences of charismatic worship activities in kids band rehearsals	0
Improving the Pedagogy of Islamic Religious Education in Secondary Schools	0
Trauma-informed children’s ministry: a practical guide to reaching hurting kids Trauma-informed children’s ministry: a practical guide to reaching hurting kids , by Robe	0
Successful experiences in supporting the inwardness and spirituality of children and adolescents	0
“Life values and death” - a qualitative study on spiritual concepts and understandings of young children in Denmark	0
Educating for peace through countering violence strategies in curriculum and instruction	0
Moral education and the ethics of self-cultivation: Chinese and Western perspectives	0
Religion, culture, and identity: the generational evolution of identification with Buddhism from the perspective of young Chinese Indonesians	0
Understanding Islam: A guide for teachers	0
Mindfulness, meditation and me: student teachers’ willingness to engage with spiritual activities in the primary school classroom	0
Determinants of spirituality in children’s age	0
Teaching religious literacy to combat religious bullying: insights from North American Secondary Schools	0
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school: opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond	0
Law and religious diversity in education: the right to difference	0
Little Theologians: children, culture and the making of theological meaning	0
Religious diversity at school: educating for new pluralistic contexts	0
Buddhist understanding of childhood spirituality: the Buddha’s children	0
Young people’s experiences of religious socialisation in Sweden and Finland	0