Between a rock and a hard place: decolonising religious and human rights education
Human rights education and Islamic education are typically presented as finished products without room for critique that do not always align with local and personal realities, resulting in a phenomenon sometimes called ‘decoupling’. To examine the ways in which decoupling might occur in one setting,...
| Published in: | British Journal of religious education |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2021]
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British Journal of religious education
Year: 2021, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-102 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kuwait
/ Student of pedagogy
/ Religion
/ Human rights
/ Generalization
/ Konkretisierung
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AH Religious education BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
Decoupling
B Decolonisation B Religious Education B human rights education |
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| Summary: | Human rights education and Islamic education are typically presented as finished products without room for critique that do not always align with local and personal realities, resulting in a phenomenon sometimes called ‘decoupling’. To examine the ways in which decoupling might occur in one setting, this proposed article reports on the results of a quantitative study that analysed the responses of 470 education students at a university in Kuwait who were asked to rate on a 4-point scale their level of agreement with statements of women’s rights in general terms and in specific situations. Mean differences in their responses to women’s rights in general were compared to their responses to women’s rights, in particular, using a one-sample t-test, along with comparisons of demographic differences in responses analysed using ANOVA. The results showed that the students agreed with women’s rights in general but there was significantly less agreement with women’s rights in particular, suggesting that even on an individual level, a decoupling effect takes place when translating universalised value systems, like human rights and religion, to local realities. |
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| ISSN: | 1740-7931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: British Journal of religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/01416200.2020.1810631 |