ERIC Number: EJ1130167
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Mar
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-2056-9971
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Teaching Humility in First-Grade Christian School Children
Yonker, Julie E.; Wielard, Cassie J.; Vos, Carolyn L.; Tudder, Ashley M.
International Journal of Christianity & Education, v21 n1 p55-71 Mar 2017
Four classes of first-grade children at a Christian school took pre- and post-tests measuring humility. Two intervention classes had devotional lessons on humility and two comparison classes did not. For one week, devotional lessons featured humility-related children's literature, cognitively appropriate discussions, writing about humility, and teacher-reinforced behaviors of humility. Intervention classes showed a slight increase in humility relative to comparison classes. After statistical control for personality traits of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, increases in humility disappeared; personality could be a mediator of humility assimilation. This research provides feasibility of teaching and measuring humility in young Christian school children.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Christianity, Personality Traits, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis, Ethics, Likert Scales, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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