Children and Worldviews: Andrew's story
The Children and Worldviews Project explores qualitative, narrative methods to investigate the worldviews of children, that is, the way in which they make sense of their experiences and matters which are of particular importance to them.
Andrew's story
I think God's up in heaven, just above the galaxy I suppose, you go into space and God's above space.
I think its just like fields of countryside rather than cities and towns with pollution and things like that, like the opposite to pollution really.
When you're in heaven maybe you can spend more time with your hamster. I like doing that after school, and like all the time it's free and you can do what you like. I think it's just really free.
Maybe God is in the heart of living people and heaven is just ruled by God, he's not actually there.
I reckon if you're good you go up to heaven and if you don't you go down. I think you learn about God in your life so you practise everything and the reason for that is for when you go to heaven.
Really from going to school, going to this school really, it's taught me that there is a God. We've been doing wind and fire and as our homework we had to draw a personification of wind and fire, so that's really saying like that's a picture of God.
I do think of God like an old man as well. If I could ask God three questions I would ask him what are you like? What do you look like? And why did you create us?