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Religious education
About: Religious education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9554 publications have been published within this topic receiving 65331 citations. The topic is also known as: faith-based education & RE.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that public schools should help students "communicate across the chasm" between belief and unbelief in an effort to prepare a more civil and informed citizenry, and they illustrate ways in which schools can incorporate religious literacy across the curriculum and foster an understanding of religious history and ideas among the students they serve.
Abstract: In this essay, Nel Noddings calls upon U.S. public schools to equip students with a more nuanced understanding of religious vocabulary, history, and ideas. Examining recent books by outspoken atheists including Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, Noddings argues that schools should help students "communicate across the chasm" between belief and unbelief in an effort to prepare a more civil and informed citizenry. In a wide-ranging discussion of religious vocabulary, belief, logic, morality, and aesthetics, she illustrates ways in which schools can incorporate religious literacy across the curriculum and foster a rich understanding of religious history and ideas among the students they serve.
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TL;DR: Godly play, an approach to religious education in early childhood devised by Jerome W. Berryman, has been utilized by many Christian denominations in Sunday school contexts and it is currently influencing the design of early years' religious education curricula in many Catholic dioceses.
Abstract: Godly Play, an approach to Religious Education in early childhood devised by Jerome W. Berryman, has been utilized by many Christian denominations in Sunday school contexts and it is currently influencing the design of early years’ Religious Education curricula in many Catholic dioceses. One of the appealing qualities of the Godly Play process is that it is understood to nurture the spiritual dimension of children's lives. But how exactly does it do this? In drawing on the author's own research, this exploratory article examines, through a case study, the way in which four particular characteristics of children's spirituality—the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing—are brought to the fore and are nurtured during the Godly Play process. In this way, the article attempts to demonstrate how, in a practical sense, the Godly Play process may nurture the spirituality of children who engage in this process.
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TL;DR: Integrative religious education (RE) as discussed by the authors ) is an approach to education about different religions in religiously mixed classrooms, as opposed to separative confessional approaches, and it has been proposed by as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The article provides an overview of the book Integrative religious education in Europe: A study‐of‐religions approach (2007). It introduces the notion of ‘integrative religious education (RE)’, relating to education about different religions in religiously mixed classrooms, as opposed to separative confessional approaches. The article presents some results of my analysis of recent approaches to integrative RE, mainly from England and Sweden. The analysis focuses on aims of integrative RE, the notion of religion and the representation of religions, teaching methods, and the notion of education. Building on recent theory and methodology in the study of religions (Religionswissenschaft) and education, I propose a European framework for integrative RE. The article concludes with a description of recent school‐related initiatives in the study of religions at an international level.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at participatory action research (PAR) as a means for a religious educator to unite scholarship and teaching with the purpose of building up community and moving toward social justice.
Abstract: This article looks at participatory action research (PAR) as a means for a religious educator to unite scholarship and teaching with the purpose of building up community and moving toward social justice. A definition of this term is offered as well as short examples of how different religious educators have engaged in doing PAR in their respective communities. The place of the researcher is analyzed and the different methods of research that are a part of PAR are briefly described. As a practical theology for social justice, theological reflection is integrated with the theory and practice of PAR.
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TL;DR: A number of constructs like privatisation of religion etc have been used to describe the significant change in spirituality of many of the young people in Australian Catholic schools over the last 50 years, from a more traditional religious spirituality to something that is more secular, eclectic and individualistic.
Abstract: A number of constructs like secularisation, privatisation of religion etc have been used to describe the significant change in spirituality of many of the young people in Australian Catholic schools over the last 50 years, from a more traditional religious spirituality to something that is more secular, eclectic and individualistic To some extent, this change has been acknowledged; but the religion curricula in Catholic schools still give the impression that all of the students are, or should be, regular churchgoers – as if Sunday Mass attendance was to be the end point of their education in spirituality An interpretation of change in spirituality in terms of change in cultural meanings has been developed for the purpose of understanding contemporary spiritualities in other than a deficit model Such an interpretation may be more persuasive in getting Catholic education authorities and religious educators firstly to accept, rather than condemn or ignore, the significant change in contemporary
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