Religious Education in Zambia: social justice
Religious Education has long been part of Zambia’s primary and secondary education curriculum. Though it contains a social justice section, it has been weakly socially transformative. This could be seen to be a major challenge today if Religious Education is to be educational. With a swiftly expandi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2023
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Journal of Religious Education
Year: 2023, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-61 |
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B Learning from B Religion Religious EducationLearning about B Social Inequality B Social Justice B social transformation B Zambia |
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Summary: | Religious Education has long been part of Zambia’s primary and secondary education curriculum. Though it contains a social justice section, it has been weakly socially transformative. This could be seen to be a major challenge today if Religious Education is to be educational. With a swiftly expanding social situation placing increasing numbers at the margins, it is argued that this frail transformative element in Religious Education results primarily because Religious Education has been assimilated by the main inegalitarian education system, which continues to be misinterpreted as delivering social justice. |
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ISSN: | 2199-4625 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Religious Education
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s40839-022-00178-6 |