ABSTRACT

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 over three years at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute. The teacher training focused on how to teach about issues of death, loss, and grief at the elementary school. The article examines what drives teachers to participate in the training and describes their concerns and dilemmas of engaging with issues of death, loss, and grief in their teaching. The study, which is based on an action research methodology, also explores teachers’ reflections on their pedagogical efforts to design and implement a lesson plan in which issues of death, loss, and grief are included. The analysis addresses a gap in teacher professional development in social studies education engaging with issues of death, loss, and grief and discusses implications for teaching and teacher education.

摘要

本文的目的是分析第一位作者在塞浦路斯教育学院进行的为期三年的死亡教育在职培训所带来的小学老师的理解和情感体验。教师培训的重点是在小学教授有关死亡，损失和悲伤的问题。本文探讨了促使教师参与培训的因素，并描述了他们在教学中遇到死亡，损失和悲伤等问题的担忧和困境。这项基于行动研究方法的研究还探讨了教师对他们在设计和实施包括死亡，损失和悲伤问题的课程计划的教学方法方面的反思。