Digital death education to promote pre-service teachers' grief literacy regarding childhood bereavement: A qualitative case study.

In recent decades, there has been increased advocacy for death education as well as grief literacy. Simultaneously, digital learning has been extensively integrated into higher education, particularly post-COVID-19. The study's aim was to explore the use of digitally-delivered death education traini...

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Publicado en:Death Studies Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 940 - 957
Autores principales: Frei-Landau, Rivi, Schonfeld, David J.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026
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          Frei-Landau, Rivi
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          The Loss, Disability & Resilience through a Multicultural Lens Lab, Faculty of Psychology, Achva Academic College, Shikmim, Israel
          The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
          Keck School of Medicine, Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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        Qualitative research
        Focus groups
        Interviewing
        Teachers
        Online education
        Grief
        Literacy
        Thanatology
        Bereavement in children
        Educational outcomes
        Judgment sampling
        Thematic analysis
        Research methodology
        Case studies
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          Qualitative research
          Focus groups
          Interviewing
          Teachers
          Online education
          Grief
          Literacy
          Thanatology
          Bereavement in children
          Educational outcomes
          Judgment sampling
          Thematic analysis
          Research methodology
          Case studies
      ab: In recent decades, there has been increased advocacy for death education as well as grief literacy. Simultaneously, digital learning has been extensively integrated into higher education, particularly post-COVID-19. The study's aim was to explore the use of digitally-delivered death education training, related to childhood bereavement, to gain insight into participants' learning outcomes and the contribution of the digital platform. Employing a qualitative approach, data collection included open-ended reflections, a focus group, and semi-structured interviews with 32 pre-service teachers (PSTs), all of which were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Findings revealed three themes (values, knowledge, skills), each of which was divided into two categories (self-oriented, other-oriented), and nine subthemes denoting PSTs' learning outcomes. The analysis also indicated four aspects of the digital platform that facilitated these learning outcomes. The study provides theoretical insights alongside practical implications of using digitally-delivered death education to teach wide-scale best practices to support grieving children.
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