Sources of children's knowledge about death and dying

S Longbottom, V Slaughter - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the last century, decreases in infant and child mortality, urbanization and increases in
healthcare efficacy have reduced children's personal exposure to death and dying. So how …

Dealing with the concepts of “grief” and “grieving” in the classroom: Children's perceptions, emotions, and behavior

P Stylianou, M Zembylas - OMEGA-Journal of death and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents an action research study that explores how a fifth-grade classroom of
10-to 11-year-old children in Cyprus perceive the concepts of grief and grieving, after an …

Engaging with issues of death, loss, and grief in elementary school: Teachers' perceptions and affective experiences of an in-service training program on death …

P Stylianou, M Zembylas - Theory & Research in Social Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this article is to analyze elementary school teachers' perceptions and
affective experiences of an in-service training on death education taught by the first author …

The one thing guaranteed in life and yet they won't teach you about it':: The case for mandatory grief education in UK schools

L Dawson, R Hare, L Selman, T Boseley… - …, 2023 - bereavementjournal.org
Nearly all British children will be bereaved of someone close to them by the time they turn
eighteen and, with the COVID-19 pandemic and world humanitarian crises across the news …

Do you remember being told what happened to grandma? The role of early socialization on later co** with death

L Martinčeková, MJ Jiang, JD Adams, D Menendez… - Death …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined how participants' memories of socialization
regarding death might influence their self-reported co** with losses in childhood and …

Supporting children through grief: A content analysis of picturebooks about death

K Danielson, H Colman - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024 - Springer
While society attempts to shield children from death, many are exposed to and impacted by
death in their early years, either through the death of someone they know or through media …

Death in the Scottish curriculum: Denying or confronting?

S Paul, L Del Carpio, P Rodríguez, A Herrán - Death Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The important role of schools in supporting children experiencing bereavement is
established, yet less is known about how school curricula include death as part of life and …

Peer support for bereaved children: Setting eyes on children's views through an educational action research project

P Stylianou, M Zembylas - Death Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates children's views on providing peer support to bereaved children.
The data (pre-and postinterviews and written documents) come from an action research …

Caregivers' estimations of their children's perceptions of death as a biological concept

EM Gaab, GR Owens, RD MacLeod - Death Studies, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Communication about death is often a sensitive topic in families with children. The present
studied compared answers of 141 school children aged 5–7 to questions about death, and …

Socialisation of Children to Cope With Death, Bereavement and Grief-A Berger and Luckman Inspired Analysis of Children's Picture Books in a Chinese Context

C Fu, H Xu, S Stjernswärd… - OMEGA-Journal of …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Children's understanding of death, bereavement and grief develop through socialisation
where picture books also may play a role. The study explores how children's picture books …