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Introducing Godly Play
Godly Play aims to:
- provide a safe space in which children can
encounter and engage with stories from the
Judaeo-Christian tradition;
- help children make connections between these
stories and their own experience;
- support spiritual development;
- make the language of religion familiar.
Godly Play is:
- a discovery method of teaching and learning;
- a method that is focused on the need of the whole
child: body, mind and spirit;
- a multi-sensory approach that combines and
integrates language (the verbal system) and play (the
non-verbal system);
- an approach that encourages a calm, quiet and
deliberate way of working.
Godly Play is not:
- a by-rote or transfer method of teaching and
learning.
Godly Play has been
influenced and informed by:
- the Montessori tradition of education;
- Sofia Cavalletti's work on the religious formation
of the child;
- Jerome Berryman's experience over more than 30
years, working with children and researching the method
in a variety of settings;
- a worldwide network of Godly Play practitioners who
have supported and informed Berryman's research
process.
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