In this research theme we explore methodologies for doing child theology, with a specific emphasis on children and youth at-risk and early childhood development. This project finds specific focus in the Village of Support, an incubator for child and youth development training in Rustenburg-Phokeng.
Practical Theology and Mission Studies: Understand, contemplate and do! South African Perspective
By Beukes, Jacques (editor) Practical Theology and Mission Studies: Understand, contemplate and do! South African Perspectives is an academic book ...
Recovering a Gospel of Love Through Children: Shattering Faith, Knowledge and Justice
This paper seeks to consider the themes of justice, faith and knowledge using the South African context as its backdrop ...
Multidisciplinary meetings: Listening to the experiences of children in a child and youth care centre
Adults for good reason agree that children should be protected at all times. However, in their attempts to help children ...
Adolescent girls’ voices on their need for sexuality education: A cry for mutual sexual emancipation
‘Teachers expect parents to teach you. Parents expect teachers to teach you. So actually you learn nothing and nobody wants ...
An integrated African pastoral care approach to unaccompanied refugee minors based on Verryn’s Child interventions
The African proverb ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ has been compromised and exposed by the migration of ...
Engaging children as ‘agents of change’: The Grahamstown Scout Group
This article, as a narrative, offers a ‘learning journey’ of the Grahamstown Scout Group, and reveals how ‘the child’s right ...
Doing theology with children through multimodal narrativity
Doing theology with children, in a systematic and focused way, is a new practice. This article contributes to this theological ...
Doing theology with children: Some challenges for adult theologians
Doing theology with children, which includes children as equal participants in the process, is no easy task. Adult theologians face ...
Research with children as theologians: Ethical and methodological issues
In this article, I explain why it is important for theologians to involve children in empirical research, and why children ...
Towards emancipatory research methodologies with children in the African context: Practical possibilities and overcoming challenges
Despite having international and national legislative frameworks and policies that guarantee children’s rights and encourage their participation in matters affecting ...
Doing theology with children: Exploring emancipatory methodologies
This article serves as an introduction to a collection of articles that explores emancipatory methodologies for doing theology and research ...
Doing theology with children in a South African context: Children as collaborators in intergenerational ministry
The vision of Child Theology Africa is to advance a child-friendly continent by doing theology with, for, about and through ...
Children as theological hermeneutic: Is there a new epistemological break emerging? – Nico Botha
Children are the great omission in theology. The objective of the article is to show that there is a growing ...
Theology disrupted: Doing theology with children in African contexts
The thrust of this article is an attempt to respond to the question whether we can read and interpret the ...
‘Children must be seen and heard’ – Doing postcolonial theology with children in a (southern) African Reformed church
Taking theology to the African children needs to start with a serious engagement of the colonial experience that African Christianity, ...
Theology disrupted by the challenge of refugee children
This article focuses on the plight of refugee children and families and takes the form of a dialogue between an ...
Rethinking sin and evil through the life of a child sex slave
This article rethinks (original) sin and evil through the life of a child called Engela who has been ‘sold’ into ...
Providing mentoring for orphans and vulnerable children in internally displaced person camps: The case of northern Nigeria
The challenge of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) has become central to the response of many organisations (UN, UNHCR, AONN, ...
Unsettling Theology: Sunday school children reading the text of the Bible in the age of recolonisation
During Women’s month in South Africa (August), a group of Sunday school children from the rural congregation of the Uniting ...