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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding children’s spirituality: conceptualisations by Chilean in-service early childhood educators	9
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the ‘Feeling Good, Living Life scale’ in children aged 9–12 years	7
The spiritual state of children with academic mothers	7
The emergence of spiritual self-care in parents with disabled children	7
Young people’s experiences of religious socialisation in Sweden and Finland	6
The views of social work practitioners with regards to religion and spirituality at the interface of social work practice with children and adolescents	4
The potential of ‘wonder’ to engage children’s spirituality: it’s so much more than pondering	4
Investigating the dynamic interplay of vertical and horizontal spirituality on gratitude in emerging adolescents	4
Congregational religious practices to experience happiness: learning from Indonesian children	4
Educating for peace through countering violence strategies in curriculum and instruction	4
The transcendent brain: spirituality in the age of science	4
The use of digital technologies in the formation of the spiritual culture of primary school teachers	3
Teacher voice for reflections on practice: using the voice-centred relational method to determine early childhood teachers’ understanding of spirituality	3
Revisiting some half-forgotten ideas on children’s spirituality	3
Life and moral education in Greater China	2
Analysis of spiritual awareness in heavenly gifts curriculum of second grade elementary schools in Iran	2
“Life values and death” - a qualitative study on spiritual concepts and understandings of young children in Denmark	2
Spirituality, football and Olivia: how connectedness inspires hope through difficult situations	2
Children’s life and spirituality development and their educations: sensing, spaces, and sources of influence	1
Spirituality as predictors of career adaptability among Chinese youths: a cross-sectional study	1
Investigation of the relationship between death perception and metacognitive awareness in children and predictive variables	1
Spiritual literacy: non-religious reconceptualisation for education in a secular environment	1
Primary validation of Children Spiritual Intelligence Scale in a sample of Latvian elementary school pupils	1
Music as expression of children’s spirituality: the case of Steiner early childhood education	0
Moral education and the ethics of self-cultivation: Chinese and Western perspectives	0

Pedagogical growth journeys: perspectives of spirituality within holistic approaches to early years education	0
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school: opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond	0
Kindergarten teachers’ spiritual well-being impacts holistic early childhood education	0
Improving the Pedagogy of Islamic Religious Education in Secondary Schools	0
Supporting young children of immigrants and refugees: the promise and practices of early care and learning	0
Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice	0
Determinants of spirituality in children’s age	0
Mindfulness, meditation and me: student teachers’ willingness to engage with spiritual activities in the primary school classroom	0
How can a spiritual pedagogy in religious education contribute to children’s spiritual growth?	0
Buddhist understanding of childhood spirituality: the Buddha’s children	0
Spirituality and creativity in the early childhood context	0
Religiosity, gender, and correlates of academic dishonesty among children: a Jordanian study	0
Children’s unexplained experiences in a post materialist world: what children can teach us about the mystery of being human	0
A study of spirituality in children’s books based on the works of Douglas Wood	0
Religion, culture, and identity: the generational evolution of identification with Buddhism from the perspective of young Chinese Indonesians	0
The fluidity of Finnish youths’ Personal worldviews	0
Trauma-informed children’s ministry: a practical guide to reaching hurting kids	0
Religious diversity at school: educating for new pluralistic contexts	0
Pedagogical innovation for children’s agency in the classroom; building knowledge together	0
Barriers to young children’s spiritual growth – and some pointers to how these can be overcome	0
Education – spirituality – creativity: reflections on Waldorf education	0
Teaching religious literacy to combat religious bullying: insights from North American Secondary Schools	0
Exploring five children’s experiences of charismatic worship activities in kids band rehearsals	0
Supporting modern teaching in Islamic schools: pedagogical best practice for teachers	0
Nurturing the spirit: methods of supporting spirituality in paediatric oncology	0
Children’s Spirituality in Early Childhood Education: Theory to Practice	0
Developmental psychology and young children’s religious education	0
Early childhood Jewish education: multicultural, gender, and constructivist perspectives	0
Law and religious diversity in education: the right to difference	0
Psychological resilience and post-traumatic stress among adolescents affected by the February 6 Kahramanmaraş earthquake: the mediating role of self-compassion	0
Successful experiences in supporting the inwardness and spirituality of children and adolescents	0
Confucianism and critical patriotism: a framework for moral and civic education	0
Validation study of the Early Childhood Educators’ Spiritual Practices in the Classroom (ECE-SPC) instrument using Rasch	0
Spirituality and giftedness: a brief review	0
Little Theologians: children, culture and the making of theological meaning	0
Sociocultural perspectives on children’s spirituality	0
Children’s spirituality and traditions: theoretical and practical considerations	0
One teacher’s journey towards a spiritual pedagogy – an auto ethnographical narrative of epistemological beliefs and practice	0