Issues in Religious Education

Issues in Religious Education

Author: Lynne Broadbent

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415262538

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Religious education in schools continues to be a subject of debate and is especially topical in our multicultural society. This text is designed to give students and teachers a contextual and theoretical background to this subject.


Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality

Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality

Author: Robert Jackson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0415302722

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This text offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education, in order to devise approaches to teaching and learning and to formulate policies and procedures that are fair and just to all.


Challenges for Religious Education

Challenges for Religious Education

Author: Richard Pring

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367279073

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Challenges for Religious Education addresses and critically examines where religious education and faith schools fit within a secular society and whether there is still a place for them at all.


Issues in Religion and Education

Issues in Religion and Education

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-04

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 900428981X

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Issues in Religion and Education, Whose Religion? is a contribution to the dynamic and evolving global debates about the role of religion in public education. This volume provides a cross-section of the debates over religion, its role in public education and the theoretical and political conundrums associated with resolutions. The chapters reflect the contested nature of the role of religion in public education around the world and explore some of the issues mentioned from perspectives reflecting the diverse contexts in which the authors are situated. The differences among the chapters reflect some of the particular ways in which various jurisdictions have come to see the problem and how they have addressed religious diversity in public education in the context of their own histories and politics. Contributors are: Lori G. Beaman, Catherine Byrne, Christine L. Cusack, Adam Dinham, Lauren L. Forbes, Stéphanie Gravel, Bruce Grelle, Mathew Guest, Anna Halafoff, Kim Lam, Solange Lefebvre, Alison Mawhinney, Damon Mayrl, Asha Mukherjee, Heather Shipley, Sonia Sikka, Geir Skeie, Leo Van Arragon and Pamela Dickey Young.


Debates in Religious Education

Debates in Religious Education

Author: L. Philip Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-07-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1136702660

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What are the key debates in Religious Education teaching today? Debates in Religious Education explores the major issues all RE teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It encourages critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to think more deeply about their practice, and link research and evidence to what they have observed in schools. This accessible book tackles established and contemporary issues enabling you to reach informed judgements and argue your point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding. Taking account of recent controversy, and challenging assumptions about the place of religion in education, expert contributors cover key topics such as: Effective pedagogy in RE teaching Exploring thinking skills and truth claims The relationship of science and religion in the classroom The place of school worship in contemporary society The role of RE in spiritual and moral development Diversity in the RE classroom. With its combination of expert opinion and fresh insight, Debates in Religious Education is the ideal companion for any student or practising teacher engaged in initial training, continuing professional development and Masters level study.


Crisis, Controversy and the Future of Religious Education

Crisis, Controversy and the Future of Religious Education

Author: L. Philip Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1000730026

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Crisis, Controversy and the Future of Religious Education sets out to provide a much-needed critical examination of recent writings that consider and respond to the crisis in religious education and more widely to a crisis in non-confessional forms of religious education, wherever practised. The book is critical, wide-ranging and provocative, giving attention to a range of responses, some limited to the particular situation of religious education in England and some of wider application, for example, that of the role and significance of human rights and that of the relevance of religious studies and theology to religious education. It engages with a variety of positions and with recent influential reports that make recommendations on the future direction of religious education. Constructively, it defends both confessional and non-confessional religious education and endorses the existing right of parental withdrawal. Controversially, it concludes that the case for including non-religious worldviews in religious education, and for the introduction of a statutory, ‘objective’ national religious education curriculum for all schools, are both unconvincing on educational, philosophical and evidential grounds. Timely and captivating, this book is a must-read for religious and theological educators, RE advisers, classroom teachers, student teachers and those interested in the field of religious education.


Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education

Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education

Author: Arniika Kuusisto

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317290100

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From being on the margins of scholarly debate for much of the past century and a half, religion is being recognized once again as an area of concern for scholars, politicians, and public policy makers, and thus, the role of religious and spiritual education has taken on a new importance. Apart from its socio-political ramifications, the place of religiousness and spirituality in the make-up of individuals has been given renewed prominence through updated brain science, and neuroscientists regularly refer to elements of this brain science in terms such as spiritual intelligence and even mystical consciousness. This book explores many of the new directions being taken in the field of religious and spiritual education, as new developments challenge the priorities of formal education, and open up new avenues for incorporating religion and spirituality into the modern curriculum. It asks whether the educational aims of teachers should be focused on specifically personal development, or whether religious education should be used to develop understanding of more global and social issues such as citizenship, conflict, and ethics. The book also addresses neuroscientific insights, which suggest a need to engage with cognition and emotion in order to create a rich learning environment, something to which a particularly contested subject area like religion and spirituality is well-placed to contribute. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Beliefs & Values.


Issues in Religious Education

Issues in Religious Education

Author: Lynne Broadbent

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780415262521

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Religious education in schools continues to be a subject of debate and is especially topical in our multicultural society. This text is designed to give students and teachers a contextual and theoretical background to this subject.


Religious Education in a Pluralist Society

Religious Education in a Pluralist Society

Author: John Edwards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1317958071

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Religious education in liberal pluralist societies such as the UK, the USA, and Australian underwent radical change in the 1980s and 1990s, with a major shift towards multi-faith, educationally oriented programmes. This has meant significant modifications to both the content and the methodology of religious-education courses and to the way they are conceived of and taught in schools and universities. One important implication of this change for the teaching and study of religion today is the need for a philosophical dimension that deals with issues such as the truth status of religious statements and the moral acceptability of religious claims. This dimension is often insufficiently developed; this lack is made more critical by the multiple competing truth claims of various religions, giving rise to such contentious problems as the growth of fundamentalism, increasing religious intolerance and conflict, and differences of opinion on central moral problems such as birth control, abortion and euthanasia. This text attempts to provide the philosophical underpinning that the study and teaching of religion in modern societies requires.