Religious Education: Educating for Diversity
Ebook
Religious Education: Educating for Diversity raises issues that are central to the theory and practice of education, and in particular religious education, in modern liberal democracies characterized by diversity in its different forms. What kind of religious education is best equipped both to challenge prejudice and intolerance in society and to develop responsible and respectful relationships between people from different communities or with different commitments?
Two eminent educators address this question and propose contrasting answers. Attention is given to the aims of education and the contribution of religious education to the curriculum; historical forms of religious education; the nature of diversity in society; the roots of prejudice; different methodologies in religious education and their philosophical and religious commitments; and to positive strategies to enable religious education to realise its potential and contribute to the social and moral aims of liberal education.
An accessible introduction to the debates surrounding the form religious education should take in liberal societies characterised by diversity.
Addresses one of the most pressing questions facing contemporary educators – how to respond to the challenge of religious diversity
Examines an area of education rarely subjected to philosophical scrutiny
A provocative book that challenges and questions familiar pedagogies in religious education
Part of the Mastering Primary Teaching series, which covers all subjects in the new primary curriculum
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword, J. Mark Halstead
Part I – Religious Education: Taking Religious Difference Seriously, L. Philip Barnes
Part II - Religious Education: A Pluralist Approach, Andrew Davis
Afterword, J. Mark Halstead
Bibliography
Index
It is not difficult to agree that religious diversity should impact educational policy, especially in respect of religious education, but it is much more difficult to reach agreement on the nature of this impact. Acknowledging diversity about educational approaches to religious diversity is as important as acknowledging religious diversity itself. Putting Barnes, Davis and Halstead side-by-side is an excellent method for displaying the importance of this debate.
- Title: Religious Education: Educating for Diversity
- Authors: Leslie Barnes, Andy Davis, Jeremy Halstead
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472571076, 9781472571069, 1472571061, 147257107X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472571076
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-08T23:32:42Z
L. Philip Barnes is Emeritus Reader in Religious and Theological Education at King's College London, UK.
Andrew Davis is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Education, Durham University, UK. He is the author of a number of books, including Educational Assessment and Accountability (2008).
J. Mark Halstead is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of a number of books and co-author of Values in Sex Education (2003) and Citizenship and Moral Education (2006).