Showing papers on "Religious education published in 1968"
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01 Jun 1968
TL;DR: This paper explored the implications of research for an alternative approach to religious education and examined what content and methods of teaching are consistent with the healthy development of children and adolescents, and the need for more child-centred methods for teaching.
Abstract: In this study, first published in 1965, the author explores the implications of research for an alternative approach to religious education. The book deals with the psychological bases of religious development, reviewing the natural limitations as well as the basic needs of the young, and how religious education should be affected by educational theory and practice.
The author also examines what content and methods of teaching are consistent with the healthy development of children and adolescents. Teachers in schools, students in training, lecturers, clergy and ministers, and local education authority committees will welcome the book as an important aid to the task of rethinking syllabuses and the need for more child-centred methods of teaching.
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TL;DR: The legal status of the Bible in the former Soviet Union was examined in this article, where it was shown that teaching the Bible is not allowed in any state or public schools, or in private educational institutions where general subjects are taught.
Abstract: ACCORDING to Marxist theory a legal system serves the needs of the ruling classes, whoever they happen to be at a particular period. Accordingly, the whole legal system of the Soviet Union was devised to be one of the "tools" serving the "needs" of the ruling proletarian class, as it is defined by the Soviet regime. Thus, Soviet legislation regulating religious life in the country is devised, too, to be an expression of the "needs" of the Soviet regime. This legislation is based largely on Marx, Engels, and Lenin's ideological conception of religion and its "social function." "Religion is the opiate of the people" has become one of the most quoted sentences from Marx and is the battle cry of Soviet antireligious propaganda. Lenin expressed the same view in more colloquial terms: "Religion is a kind of spiritual booze [sivukha] in which the slaves of capitalism are drowning their humane image and their demands for some measure of dignified life."' Marxist and Soviet theoreticians have insisted that the Soviet regime, by withdrawing the state's support of religion, assures true "neutrality" and genuine religious freedom. However the right to transmit the tenets of faith from parent to child is one of the basic aspects of religious freedom. Without it, the perpetuation of religious cults is hardly possible. The Soviet regime, in its over-all aim to eradicate religious beliefs among its people, has given high priority to opposing the religious education of the young. Yet much confusion and uncertainty exists respecting both the present state and the legal status of religion in the Soviet Union and of religious education in particular. Is it legal in the Soviet Union to teach religion, to teach the Bible? And if so, what are the limitations prescribed by Soviet law? An examination of existing Soviet law can answer these questions. Early Soviet leaders considered separation of school from church important enough that Lenin incorporated this principle in the title of the basic Decree regulating the position of religion in the country.2 The ninth paragraph of the Decree deals with schools and religious education. It states briefly that "school is separated from church" and that "instruction of religious doctrines is not allowed in any state or public schools, or in private educational institutions where general subjects are taught. Citizens may teach and study religion in a private
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TL;DR: In this paper, teachers' attitudes to religious education were discussed. But they did not discuss the relationship between teachers and religious education, and teachers' attitude to RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
Abstract: (1968). TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. Educational Research: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 66-70.
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01 Nov 1968
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TL;DR: In the process of developing a new course of instruction in Medicine, Religion, and Healing at the George Washington University School of Medicine, it seemed desirable to learn how other medical schools were approaching this type of teach ing.
Abstract: In the process of developing a new course of instruction in Medicine, Religion, and Healing* at the George Washington University School of Medicine, it seemed desirable to learn how other medical schools were approaching this type of teach ing. This writer had previous knowledge of only two or three schools in which any ethico-religious instruction was being offered. The American Medical Associa tion's Department of Medicine and Religion knew of a few schools that offered some exposure in this field, but beyond this little could be learned. By "ethico religious instruction" is meant any formal or informal, official or extracurricular exposure of medical students to the nature of religious faith and its implications in a medical context.
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TL;DR: The Significance of Jerome Bruner's Educational Philosophy for Religious Education is discussed in this article, where it is shown that the philosophy can be used to improve the performance of religious education.
Abstract: (1968). II The Significance of Jerome Bruner's Educational Philosophy for Religious Education. Religious Education: Vol. 63, No. 6, pp. 462-468.
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TL;DR: Religious education needs to anticipate changes in our culture if long-range planning is to be effective as discussed by the authors, and this needs to be emphasized in the curriculum of religious education programs.
Abstract: Religious education needs to anticipate changes in our culture if long‐range planning is to be effective
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TL;DR: The development of teaching machines may force religious educators to formulate their goals more clearly as mentioned in this paper, which may force them to be more clearly defined and explain their goals to their students, and thus, more clearly formulate their objectives.
Abstract: The development of teaching machines may force religious educators to formulate their goals more clearly
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of current theological trends has important consequences for religious education, going beyond the perspective suggested by David Steward in the July • August 1968 issue of the New Statesman.
Abstract: This brilliant survey of current theological trends has important consequences for religious education, going beyond the perspective suggested by David Steward in the July‐August 1968 issue
TL;DR: In this article, Fahs, Smart, Shinn, Gilbert, and Hunter examine how theology operates in terms of authority as related to religious educational theory: a look at Fahs and Smart.
Abstract: How theology operates in terms of authority as related to religious educational theory: a look at Fahs, Smart, Shinn, Gilbert, and Hunter
TL;DR: Fisher as discussed by the authors argued that if there is no transformation of the ego, religious education is not taking place, and she treated this issue in a nonauthoritarian and contemporary manner.
Abstract: If there is no transformation of the ego, religious education is not taking place Miss Fletcher treats this issue in a non‐authoritarian and contemporary manner 1Reprinted from The New Era (Dec 1966) by permission of Miss Elsie Fisher