This site compiles all the research work I have done on spirituality, as well as personal insights,
A website about studying spiritual matters in academic settings.
07/20/2023
How do US early childhood educators understand spirituality? - 2023 IACS Symposium Sharing our recent presentation at the 2023 International Association for Children's Spirituality Symposium, looking at how early childhood educators in the ...
07/20/2023
Watch my most recent presentation at the 2023 IACS Symposium
How do US early childhood educators understand spirituality? - 2023 IACS Symposium Sharing our recent presentation at the 2023 International Association for Children's Spirituality Symposium, looking at how early childhood educators in the ...
Interesting article on how brain waves change when and synchronize when people interact.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/ #:~:text=An%20early%2C%20consistent%20finding%20is,patterns%2C%20like%20dancers%20moving%20together.
07/11/2023
My upcoming book is now available for preorder and is currently on sale!
Children's Spirituality in Early Childhood Education: Theory to Practice This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children’s spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom. Making a critical distinction between spirituality and religion, this book ...
06/11/2023
Updated my Spirit Lab on my website with new guided relaxations to transmute physical pain, check them out!
Spirit Lab — JMM Providing consultation, advise and coaching in the field of education. Focusing on early childhood (0-8) and bilingual/bicultural education. Research specialty in children's spirituality. Experienced services provided on qualitative methodologies in program design and evaluation.
04/25/2023
Checkout the International Association of Children's Spirituality latest Webinar
La Espiritualidad Infantil - El Punto de Partida para Ser Humano Tema: esta presentación explora la naturaleza innata de la espiritualidad para los seres humanos y cómo puede ser desarrollada a través de distintas vías, in...
04/23/2023
Our poster on Early Childhood Educators' Understanding of Children's Spirituality
AERA 2023 (iPosterSessions - an aMuze! Interactive system) Under a holistic understanding of child development, children’s natural curiosity to explore the world and make sense of it would also include children’s desire to make meaning of the spiritual world as they experience it. From this holistic lens, this study embarks on uncovering how early child...
01/23/2023
New video on Spirituality in Education: The North Star is up!
Spirituality in Education: The North Star In December 2022, I shared at the Education Department, Research Seminar at UMBC a presentation titled Spirituality in Education: The North Star, presenting ...
01/27/2022
Honored to be featured in the Profiles of Roothbert. Roothbert Fund Fellows The Roothbert Fund played an important role in supporting the work I so much enjoy doing in the field of children's spirituality. It is a pleasure to be reconnected with them at this point in my career.
Profiles of Roothbert: Jennifer Mata — The Roothbert Fund “I define spirituality as an innate potential to connect and relate to self, others, and the Other” began Jennifer Mata ‘06. “We as human beings have this ability. Because [spirituality] is a potential, we can decide to develop and grow, or we can decide not to. It also depends on our contex...
06/08/2021
Our new Handbook on Culture and Identity is coming out soon and you can get it for a 35% discount with the code below.
04/21/2021
IACS members,
Because of ongoing pandemic travel and social gathering restrictions, IACS is unable to hold the Symposium tentatively scheduled for mid-July in Liverpool, UK. Instead, the Executive Committee agreed that we should plan a virtual Symposium. Please find information about this virtual event at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EDnzuVAFQ4AQPPzooY0Rg811DBtk4HVG/view?usp=sharing.
As you will see, the new dates for our summer Symposium are 22-23 & 26-27 July 2021 and our meeting forum will be advance reading/viewing of papers/presentations and live Zoom gatherings.
Short paper/presentation proposals are due 15 May 2021.
General registration is due by 1 July 2021. Participation is free!