{"id":2254,"date":"2024-03-07T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:25:37","slug":"nexus-researching-church-toddler-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/nexus-researching-church-toddler-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexus researching church toddler groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This research project emerged from previous NICER research projects looking at the spiritual development of secondary-age students and the spiritual nurture of primary school pupils in the Nexus. The study investigated Church Toddler Groups as a centre of connection between home, toddler group, and church, exploring the following research questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does spiritual flourishing look like among very young children?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do Church Toddler Groups support spiritual flourishing?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The research was carried out over three main phases. The first phase investigated the most effective methods of researching the spiritual flourishing of young children in a church toddler group. During the second phase, two researchers visited three toddler groups for four consecutive sessions undertaking a detailed multi-method study; this involved observing the children&#8217;s engagement, holding informal conversations with parents, volunteers, and leaders.&nbsp;In Phase 3, the research team undertook further analysis, consultations, and investigation of initiatives that intentionally paid attention to nurturing the spiritual well-being of young families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.canterbury.ac.uk\/download\/25809cc6f06078c51e39fc1e4c013b6e13b4b1e8abdf05c083f80a055c1bd57a\/1524225\/Church%20Toddler%20Groups%20%20FINAL%20REPORT%20January%202024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">View research report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research project emerged from previous NICER research projects looking at the spiritual development of secondary-age students and the spiritual nurture of primary school pupils in the Nexus. The study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,26,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-nexus","category-projects","category-toddlers"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Bob Bowie","postExcerpt":"This research project emerged from previous NICER research projects looking at the spiritual development of secondary-age students and the spiritual nurture of primary school pupils in the Nexus. The study [&hellip;]","featuredImage":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/national-institute-for-christian-education-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}