Children's understanding of death from biological to religious conceptions

• Other Authors: Talwar, Victoria 1974- (Editor), Harris, Paul L. 1946- (Editor), Schleifer, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2011
• Subjects: Attitude to Death > ethnology; Child Psychology > ethnology; Bereavement; Religion and Psychology; Child
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In order to understand how adults deal with children's questions about death, we must examine how children understand death, as well as the broader society's conceptions of death, the tensions between biological and supernatural views of death and theories on how children should be taught...

Table of Contents:

• Death, ancestors, and the living dead : learning without teaching in Madagascar / Rita Astuti
• Death in Spain, Madagascar, and beyond / Paul L. Harris
• Ambivalent teaching and painful learning : mastering the facts of life / Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
• Death in the lives of children / Margaret M. Mahon
• Talking to children about death in educational settings / Victoria Talwar
• Responsible believing / Miriam Mccormick
• Thoughts and feelings : children and William James have it right! / Michael Schleifer
• How the law constructs its understanding of death / Ray Madoff.