Beyond Death Education? A Study of its Epistemological Traditions

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Death education covers a wide range of fields and contents which, since its beginnings, have included accompaniment, bereavement, and care, mainly from the health sciences. Only in recent decades has it moved into the field of education (education system, schools, training of educators, teaching, resources, etc.), and has been applied beyond the field of bereavement. The best indexed scientific journals on death education define a valid space for two purposes: to know the scientific production in this field, and to recognise contributions made from two epistemological traditions: the Anglo-Saxon and the Central European, of which Spain participates. In the latter, the field (death education) is differentiated from the scientific discipline of reference (Pedagogy of death). The study aims to: (1) describe the publications on death education in quality scientific journals in the last ten years, and (2) analyse and compare the publications on death education from the perspective of the Anglo-Saxon and Central European epistemological traditions. For this purpose, a analysis of scientific production (quantitative and descriptive) has been carried out among the periodicals with the highest scientific impact in the field of death education indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science (WOS) databases from January 2010 to June 2022. Subsequently, a comparative examination of twelve units of analysis from the perspective of both academic traditions has been carried out. The overall intention has been to contribute to the understanding of the literature analysed. It is concluded that the contributions of both educational traditions are enriching, differentiable and complementary. Within the Central European tradition, the publications produced within the framework of the Pedagogy of Death from Spain, associated with the radical and inclusive approach to education, stand out. Synthetically, publications in the Anglo-Saxon and Central European tradition deal with death and dying from the radical and inclusive approach of a death-inclusive education for a more conscious life.
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