CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Animism-the belief that all natural phenomena, including human beings, animals, and plants, but also rocks, lakes, mountains, weather, and so on, share one vital quality-the soul or spirit that energizes them-is at the core of most Arctic belief systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animism (from Latin: anima meaning ‘breath, spirit, life’) is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things-animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words, as animated and alive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although the term ‘animism’ can be traced to the Latin anima for breath, life, or spirit, Tylor borrowed it from George Ernst Stahl, an eighteenth-century chemist and physician, who proposed that the spirits or souls of living beings or things control physical processes in the body.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition: The belief, characteristic of pre-operational thought, that inanimate objects are all living.