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

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    Deagon, Jay
    Pendergast, Donna
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    Pendergast, Donna L.
    Deagon, Jay R.
    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 ...
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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 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
    Publisher URI
    http://www.heia.com.au/
    Copyright Statement
    © 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.
    Subject
    Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
    Nutrition and Dietetics
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Anthropology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/67258
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