Discovering attentive presence: children as agents for spiritual change in the curatorial of worship. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Morris, Trudie
• Is Part Of: International journal of children's spirituality. Volume 25:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 30
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Attentive presence -- the Eucharist -- Participatory Action Research; Moral education -- Periodicals; Religious education -- Periodicals; Spirituality -- Periodicals; Children -- Religious life -- Periodicals; 155.25
• DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1711025
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-436X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The paper focusses upon one of the outcomes from research into co-curating the Eucharist with children. The aim of the research was to answer a question where there is little evidence and because the topic is of direct practical relevance to issues in the researcher's own work and practice as a parish priest in the Church of England. The primary data was derived from Participatory Action Research. Three sets of co-researchers drawn from children, adults from the local community and adult members of two congregations, shared their experiences without and with co-curation of the Eucharist with children. An inductive methodology was used in a qualitative, constant comparative and thematic method of data analysis. The data found attentive presence to be a unifying concept important to spiritual flourishing. Children co-curating worship found that their involvement in the liturgical action deepened the spiritual experience of some adults.