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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
[2019]
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CEPS journal
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 11-29 |
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. |
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ISSN: | 2232-2647 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Center za Študij Edukacijskih Politik, CEPS journal
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.678 |