Home economists' views and perceptions of spiritual health and wellbeing: A collective affirmation statement

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Deagon, Jay
Pendergast, Donna
Year published
2014
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Home economists articulate relationships between home economics and spiritual health and wellbeing in various ways. This paper focuses on some similarities in spiritual discourses. Home economists from twenty-one countries responded to an anonymous online survey that invited cross-cultural views and perceptions about spirituality. Bricolage strategies, including qualitative descriptive statistics, elements of constructivist grounded theory, and content and discourse analysis, were used to establish themes in the data and enabled analysis of home economists' language-in-use relating to spirituality. Sharedmeaning themes were ...
View more >Home economists articulate relationships between home economics and spiritual health and wellbeing in various ways. This paper focuses on some similarities in spiritual discourses. Home economists from twenty-one countries responded to an anonymous online survey that invited cross-cultural views and perceptions about spirituality. Bricolage strategies, including qualitative descriptive statistics, elements of constructivist grounded theory, and content and discourse analysis, were used to establish themes in the data and enabled analysis of home economists' language-in-use relating to spirituality. Sharedmeaning themes were located and used to construct a collective affirmation statement. The statement confirmed some 'essential element' categories of home economics including individuals, families and communities, the natural environment, and local and global citizenship to have relationships with spiritual discourse. Prominent spiritual discourse concepts emerged, such as uniqueness of the individual, respect for diversity, service to others, hope, meaning and purpose in life, family relationships and community spirit. For the participants in this study, home economics education contributed positively to spiritual wellbeing.
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View more >Home economists articulate relationships between home economics and spiritual health and wellbeing in various ways. This paper focuses on some similarities in spiritual discourses. Home economists from twenty-one countries responded to an anonymous online survey that invited cross-cultural views and perceptions about spirituality. Bricolage strategies, including qualitative descriptive statistics, elements of constructivist grounded theory, and content and discourse analysis, were used to establish themes in the data and enabled analysis of home economists' language-in-use relating to spirituality. Sharedmeaning themes were located and used to construct a collective affirmation statement. The statement confirmed some 'essential element' categories of home economics including individuals, families and communities, the natural environment, and local and global citizenship to have relationships with spiritual discourse. Prominent spiritual discourse concepts emerged, such as uniqueness of the individual, respect for diversity, service to others, hope, meaning and purpose in life, family relationships and community spirit. For the participants in this study, home economics education contributed positively to spiritual wellbeing.
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Journal Title
Journal of the Home Economics Institute of Australia
Volume
21
Issue
2
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© 2014 Home Economics Institute of Australia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
Nutrition and Dietetics
Specialist Studies in Education
Anthropology