Developmental Psychology and Young Children's Religious Education

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.

Olivera Petrovich is a developmental psychologist in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research deals with the development of religious understanding in children and adults from different cultures.

1. Introduction 2. Research design and fieldwork: Rationale and method 3. Children's perceptions of and attitudes to school RE: Interview findings 4. Everyday religious understanding: The natural-theological reasoning test 5. Children's concepts of God: Everyday and RE-based 6. Teachers' perceptions of young children's abilities for RE learning 7. Religious understanding in the early years: What can RE learn from young children? 8. Conclusion