Attentiveness for children: proposing a neo-confucian curriculum for preschool education

Children’s spirituality: personal reflections on International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (IJCS)

“…The paper by Morris (2020) investigates the possible links between attentive presence and spiritual flourishing of children in the curatorial of worship through Participatory Action Research. In the East, Wu and Tan (2020) propose for preschool education a Neo-Confucian curriculum based on the notions of attentiveness and the writings of Zhu Xi around the concept of jing which is conducive to self-cultivation and the development of moral values. Jing proposed by Zhu Xi could be called single-minded and reverential attention (Tan 2019, 360-361) which is to some extent related to the reverence for interconnected life (Angle 2017).…”