Insights from Adolescents’ Prayer Requests within a Christian Ethos School: A Qualitative Perspective

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Tania ap Siôn
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State-maintained Christian ethos schools are a prominent part of the educational landscape of England and Wales, and a growing body of empirical research has sought to access, study and interpret the voices of their students in order to contribute to a fuller understanding of life within these schools and their place in contemporary Britain. As part of this endeavour, this study focuses on what may be learnt from students’ prayer in a joint Anglican and Catholic Christian ethos secondary school. Following the identification of the school prayer board and intercessory prayers within school Eucharists as offering a significant contribution to the Christian ethos school, this study set out to explore and evaluate these prayer requests composed by students. Taking a sample of 212 prayers, an established analytic framework for the analysis and classification of intercessory prayer (the apSAFIP) was employed and other notable characteristics identified (including prayer type, ‘proclamations’, drawings, liturgical language and style). The findings draw attention to the distinctive profile of the prayer requests offered within the school in terms of the issues for which prayers are offered, and the religious language, expressions, and themes that shape these prayers. The study concludes by appraising the performance of the apSAFIP in this new context and by considering what may be learnt from these themes and linguistic forms about the spiritual and religious lives of the students.
从一个基督教精神学校的青少年祈祷请求的洞察:一个定性的视角
国家维持的基督教精神学校是英格兰和威尔士教育景观的重要组成部分,越来越多的实证研究试图接触、研究和解释学生的声音,以帮助更全面地了解这些学校的生活及其在当代英国的地位。作为这项工作的一部分,这项研究的重点是从英国圣公会和天主教-基督教联合中学的学生祈祷中可以学到什么。在确定学校祈祷委员会和学校圣餐中的代祷对基督教精神学校做出了重大贡献后,本研究开始探索和评估学生提出的这些祈祷请求。以212名祈祷者为样本,采用了一个已建立的分析框架来分析和分类代祷(apSAFIP),并确定了其他显著特征(包括祈祷类型、“公告”、绘画、礼拜语言和风格)。研究结果提请人们注意学校内提供的祈祷请求在提供祈祷的问题以及塑造这些祈祷的宗教语言、表达和主题方面的独特特征。该研究的结论是,评估了apSAFIP在这一新背景下的表现,并考虑了从这些主题和语言形式中可以学到的关于学生精神和宗教生活的东西。
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