{"id":371,"date":"2023-10-04T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/?p=371"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T12:27:50","slug":"podcast-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/podcast-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Children\u2019s Imaginary Friends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Episode 4: Professor Kate Adams - Children\u2019s Imaginary Friends\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/09FZ4IeiWj9e6mTTvm4pLV?si=911b34ea225842b1&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/podcast-transcript-episode-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transcript<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">About this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">In this fourth episode Dr Caron Carter talks to <strong>Professor Kate Adams<\/strong> about the concept of imaginary friends. Asking: Are there different types of imaginary friend? How should we react to the presence of an imaginary friend? How can we support children with their imaginary friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Guest speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-382\" style=\"padding: 0 15px 15px 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/10\/kateadams.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/10\/kateadams.png 333w, https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/10\/kateadams-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/10\/kateadams-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/10\/kateadams-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><strong>Kate Adams<\/strong> is Professor of Education at Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK. After graduating from university, she embarked on a career in primary teaching in England before moving into academia. Kate\u2019s research advocates for consideration of the whole child, with a specialist focus on children\u2019s spirituality, uncovering the often-silenced voices of children of all faiths and none. Kate\u2019s current research focuses on friendship, considering the potential spiritual aspects of these important relationships. A key focus of this research is on the phenomenon of childhood \u2018imaginary\u2019 friends which take a human form, which she explores from different perspectives. Kate has published widely for over two decades through research papers, articles, and books including <em>Unseen Worlds: Looking through the lens of childhood<\/em>, and <em>The Spiritual Dimension of Childhood. <\/em>She has served on the Board of Directors for the International Association for the Study of Dreams and as Co-Chair of the International Association for Children\u2019s Spirituality and is on the editorial board for <em>The International Journal for Children\u2019s Spirituality <\/em>and the <em>Journal of Religious Education<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s Imaginary Friends About this episode In this fourth episode Dr Caron Carter talks to Professor Kate Adams about the concept of imaginary friends. Asking: Are there different types of imaginary friend? How should we react to the presence of an imaginary friend? How can we support children with their imaginary friends? Guest speaker Kate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/podcast-episode-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.shu.ac.uk\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}