Engaging children as ‘agents of change’: The Grahamstown Scout Group

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Engaging children as ‘agents of change’: The Grahamstown Scout Group
 
Creator Saneka, Nora E. Prest Talbot, Anna L.
 
Subject — empowerment; children’s rights; hermeneutic justice; theosony; praxeology.
Description This article, as a narrative, offers a ‘learning journey’ of the Grahamstown Scout Group, and reveals how ‘the child’s right to participation’ (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC 1989) is actualised in the life and workings of this group. The methodology used by the facilitator of the Scout Group explores different ways of listening and responding to the children, inspired by three different approaches on working with children that overlap and resonate with each other. The article outlines various ways in which the ‘image’ of the child is a historical and social interpretation and explores the meaning of this for theology and children’s ministry. A ‘rights-based approach’ to working with children reveals them as created in the ‘image of God’ and co-constructors with God of a ‘better world for children’, as they become ‘agents of change’.
 
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Date 2019-10-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v75i1.5490
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 75, No 1 (2019); 8 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Nora E. Saneka, Anna L. Prest Talbot https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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