The Paradigms of Contemporary Religious Education
The word ‘paradigm’ appears in a number of Cornelia Roux’s published works (Roux 1998; 1998a; 2003; 2008; 2009; 2011). This article re-examines her use of ‘paradigm’ in the light of Thomas Kuhn’s (1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on recently published work on religion and educa...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Journal for the study of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-81 |
Further subjects: | B
Paradigm
B Epistemology B Education B Religion B Philosophy |
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Summary: | The word ‘paradigm’ appears in a number of Cornelia Roux’s published works (Roux 1998; 1998a; 2003; 2008; 2009; 2011). This article re-examines her use of ‘paradigm’ in the light of Thomas Kuhn’s (1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on recently published work on religion and education (Gearon 2013; 2014), I elaborate why researchers and educators alike require a more rigorous theoretical conceptualisation of the underlying paradigms of contemporary religious education. Outlining how a satisfactory understanding of the paradigms in religious education require an understanding of the epistemological grounds of each, the article presents, by way of demonstration, a critical outline of six such paradigms: the scripturaltheological; the phenomenological; the spiritual-experiential; the philosophical- conceptual; the socio-cultural; and the historical-political.Keywords: religion, education, paradigm, philosophy, epistemology |
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ISSN: | 2413-3027 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4314/jsr.v27i1 |