A study-of-Religion(s)-Based Religion Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Aims

Different approaches to religion education have been in place for a long time or developed more recently to meet growing religious and cultural plurality in European countries and schools. In this article, I summarise and discuss basic principles for a study-of-religion(s) approach to religion educa...

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Published in:CEPS journal
Main Author: Kjeldsen, Karna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana [2019]
In: CEPS journal
Further subjects:B Religion Education
B Citizenship Education
B learning about / learning from religion
B study of religions
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Summary:Different approaches to religion education have been in place for a long time or developed more recently to meet growing religious and cultural plurality in European countries and schools. In this article, I summarise and discuss basic principles for a study-of-religion(s) approach to religion education, adding arguments and perspectives from critical theories about education in general. I shall also argue that national curricula for, respectively, religion education in Sweden and History in Denmark indicate that analytical-critical skills can be a central part of religion education in elementary and lower secondary public schools. The structure of the article is based on a modified version of the ‘map of history’ developed by the scholar of education and history education Rosie Turner-Bisset who has formulated principles for teaching History in primary schools. The model will be used as a framework, for systematising and discussing key principles of a study-of-religions approach to religion education with reference to three categories: 1) attitudes, 2) skills and concepts, and 3) knowledge.
ISSN:2232-2647
Contains:Enthalten in: Center za Študij Edukacijskih Politik, CEPS journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.678