What do teachers think of death education?

P Rodríguez Herrero, A de la Herrán Gascón… - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study sets out to address a gap in research into teachers' attitudes and opinions toward
death education. To meet this objective, two complementary instruments were designed and …

Making death, compassion and partnership 'part of life'in school communities

CJ Kennedy, M Keeffe, F Gardner… - Pastoral Care in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Death can be considered a social taboo, a common source of fear and public avoidance.
School communities are not immune to this, as the topic of death is constantly avoided. It is …

Do parents want death to be included in their children's education?

A de la Herrán Gascón, PR Herrero… - Journal of Family …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this study is to determine whether parents of schoolchildren want an
education that takes death into account or not. To address this objective, the Death …

Death education's “period of popularity”: Lessons for contemporary P-12 schools in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

KD Smilie - Death Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As students gradually return to P-12 classrooms in the United States during and after the
COVID-19 pandemic, they will have faced and been inundated with images of death at …

Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death

T Puskás, A Andersson, F Jeppsson… - European Early …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This qualitative study focuses on preschool practitioners' teaching about death. The
theoretical framework draws on ideas about dialogic teaching and the concepts that are of …

Death in the Scottish curriculum: Denying or confronting?

S Paul, L Del Carpio, P Rodríguez, A Herrán - Death Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The important role of schools in supporting children experiencing bereavement is
established, yet less is known about how school curricula include death as part of life and …

Mothers' views on death education for children aged 4–6

F Kurttekin - Death Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study forms the second phase of the research examining the inclusion of death in the
Qur'an courses curriculum for children aged 4–6 years. The research aimed to determine the …

Can we talk about life without taking death into account? Early childhood educators' self-perceived ability to approach the topic of death with children

I Grigoropoulos - OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The current explorative cross-sectional study evaluated the knowledge, attitudes, and
practices of early childhood educators towards death education and their self-perceived …

How thoughts of death and intrinsic/extrinsic goal orientation affect well‐being during the pandemic

F Sonmez - Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, reminders of death are so ubiquitous that it is almost
impossible to avoid death‐related thoughts. This research examined the effect of COVID‐19 …

'There is no right or wrong answer': Swedish preschool teachers' reflections on the didactics of death

T Puskás, F Jeppsson… - Contemporary Issues in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study is part of a larger project with the general aim of developing the ability of
preschool teachers to reflect critically on questions, topics and theories related to different …