Religious Diversity And Intercultural Education

Author : John Keast,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9287162239

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Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education by John Keast,Council of Europe Pdf

This reference book is intended to help teachers, teacher administrators, policy makers and others deal with the important issue of religious diversity in Europe's schools. The religious dimension of intercultural education is an issue that affects all schools, whether they are religiously diverse or not, because their pupils live and will work in increasingly diverse societies. The book is the main outcome of the project 1The Challenge of intercultural education today: religious diversity and dialogue in Europe', developed by the Council of Europe between 2002 and 2005. It is in four parts: theoretical and conceptual basis for religious diversity and intercultural education; educational conditions and methodological approaches; religious diversity in schools in different settings; examples of current practice in some member states of the Council of Europe.

Author : Heid Leganger-Krogstad
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9783643900852

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The Religious Dimension of Intercultural Education by Heid Leganger-Krogstad Pdf

This book explores the religious dimension in intercultural education and states that religion plays a key role in value conflicts and worldview differences in schools in pluralistic societies. Religion is considered having a double role, both as the reason for deep differences in mental mapping and worldviews and as a contributor to intercultural understanding and dialogue. The book discusses the role religion has in education both at an institutional level, in the whole school society, and in Religious Education as a specific school subject. Underlying Western worldviews in subject curricula and subject didactics need to be revealed and contested to increase the benefit of education for all students. It argues for the need of a contextual understanding to help teaching and learning address religious diversity in schools.

Author : Consejo de Europa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:800475223

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Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education by Consejo de Europa Pdf

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287180063

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Signposts - Policy and practice for teaching about religions and non-religious world views in intercultural education by Robert Jackson Pdf

How can the study of religions and non-religious world views contribute to intercultural education in schools in Europe? An important recommendation from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)12 on the dimension of religions and non-religious convictions within intercultural education) aimed to explain the nature and objectives of this form of education. Signposts goes much further by providing advice to policy makers, schools (including teachers, senior managers and governors) and teacher trainers on tackling issues arising from the recommendation. Taking careful account of feedback from education officials, teachers and teacher trainers in Council of Europe member states, Signposts gives advice, for example, on clarifying the terms used in this form of education; developing competences for teaching and learning, and working with different didactical approaches; creating “safe space” for moderated student-to-student dialogue in the classroom; helping students to analyse media representations of religions; discussing non-religious world views alongside religious perspectives; handling human rights issues relating to religion and belief; and linking schools (including schools of different types) to one another and to wider communities and organisations. Signposts is not a curriculum or a policy statement. It aims to give policy makers, schools and teacher trainers in the Council of Europe member states, as well as others who wish to use it, the tools to work through the issues arising from interpretation of the recommendation to meet the needs of individual countries. Signposts results from the work of an international panel of experts convened jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre, and is written on the group’s behalf by Professor Robert Jackson.

Author : Abdeljalil Akkari,Myriam Radhouane
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030708252

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Intercultural Approaches to Education by Abdeljalil Akkari,Myriam Radhouane Pdf

This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presents theoretical and conceptual foundations for seriously considering cultural diversity. The book also compares intercultural approaches and debates generated in countries as diverse as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and France. For each national context, the book addresses both the historical roots of intercultural approaches and the concrete initiatives driven by educational policies for their implementation in schools and classrooms. Finally, the book presents discussions surrounding the treatment of linguistic or religious diversity in schools, the emergence of global citizenship education and the key role of teachers in intercultural approaches. This is an open access book.

Author : Jon Harald Bondevik,Astrit Dautaj,Kevin O'Grady,Angelos Vallianatos
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287187017

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Signposts teacher training module by Jon Harald Bondevik,Astrit Dautaj,Kevin O'Grady,Angelos Vallianatos Pdf

An essential complement to the Signposts publication As educators, we often find ourselves at a crossroads. We question our education policies while trying to find the best way to meet the needs of a democratic society that is striving for peaceful coexistence in a diverse world. We try to project a better future and give more power to education so that it can contribute to the process of building that future. Signposts has come at the right time. Starting from the need to deal with religious and non-religious world views in intercultural education, it is a model for addressing diversity and controversy, helping policy makers, curriculum developers and teacher trainers to respond effectively to the new situations and challenges with which the world confronts us every day. Signposts is an important instrument for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) that helps to create the culture of democracy.

Author : Farideh Salili,Rumjahn Hoosain
Publisher : IAP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607527213

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Religion in Multicultural Education by Farideh Salili,Rumjahn Hoosain Pdf

The National Association for Multicultural Education in Washington, D.C., listed a number of issues that the school curriculum should address with reference to multicultural education, including racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, ablism, ageism, heterosexism, and religious intolerance. It is noteworthy that of all these issues, religion is about the only one that throughout history people are willing to die for, although whether what is at issue is really religion or other things such as territory is another matter. It is also interesting that all the others have isms in their names but religious issues are characterized by intolerance. Perhaps we should try to understand this intolerance and look at what steps might help to alleviate it. However, while intolerance might seem a simple thing, understanding what is behind it and how it plays such a crucial role in religion requires what we refer to in the Introduction chapter as a multifaceted approach at multiple levels. It is not enough just to try to dispel stereotypes of followers of other religions, or to point out commonalities in world religions. We should, for example, try to understand and appreciate how adherents of other religions try to answer questions regarding their adaptation to the contemporary environment. It is through understanding how different religions coexist side by side at various levels that we truly come to learn about religion in multicultural education.

Author : Geir Skeie
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830971542

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Religious Diversity and Education. Nordic Perspectives by Geir Skeie Pdf

In the last ten years or so, religious plurality has become higher on the agenda for religious education research in the Nordic countries. This attention to religious plurality partly reflects processes of globalisation that include both physical migration and communication of ideas and is-sues across the world, making it ‘smaller’. It also reflects the preoccupation of governments with social cohesion and, as part of this, intercultural education. In the curricula of the Nordic countries this is manifested in different ways, setting also the agenda for parts of educational research. This book addresses issues related to the increasing religious plurality in the Nordic countries. These issues are a challenge to many religious groups including historically dominant Lutheran national churches, both nationally and locally. They have also led to a reorientation in religious education research in the last decade. A rich variety of research perspectives are presented under three headings: Theoretical and methodical perspectives, The world of the students, Teachers and textbooks. Nordic religious education research here proves to be internationally oriented in terms of theoretical perspectives, whilst also contributing to the debate through important empirical studies. Examples of issues covered in the book are unintended learning, dialogue, gender, life-interpretation, spirituality, identity and values. In different ways all the contributions in this book shed light on the common theme of diversity, and are based on a will to include diverse perspectives both on the actors and the material of the classroom as well as on the life world of young people. The researchers represent different generations and different theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Author : David Chidester,Janet Stonier,Judy Tobler
Publisher : Icrsa
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111008384

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Diversity as Ethos by David Chidester,Janet Stonier,Judy Tobler Pdf

Author : Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers,Council of Europe Publishing
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9287165947

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Dimension of Religions and Non-religious Convictions Within Intercultural Education by Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers,Council of Europe Publishing Pdf

This policy recommendation defines the perspective from which religions and non-religious convictions are to be taken into account in a framework of intercultural education, while setting out a number of principles, objectives and teaching and learning methods. It was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on December 10, 2008 as the final outcome of the project carried out by the Steering Committee for Education on the New Challenge of Intercultural Education: Religious Diversity and Dialogue in Europe (2002-2005). It can be used as a reference by policy makers, curricula designers, trainers and teachers in their everyday work to develop competences for intercultural dialogue and to remove obstacles that prevent appropriate treatment of the diversity of religions and non-religious convictions in school settings.--Publisher's description.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002038

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Making textbook content inclusive by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Thor-André Skrefsrud
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830984139

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The Intercultural Dialogue by Thor-André Skrefsrud Pdf

The speed, scale and spread of international migration and globalisation have firmly placed the issue of intercultural dialogue at the top of the educational agenda in Europe and elsewhere. In this book, Skrefsrud sheds light on intercultural dialogue as a key competence for teachers working in changing and diverse classrooms. In the first part, the notion of dialogue is explored with the theory of culture, religion and communication as the focus. In the second part, Skrefsrud analyses the government-initiated curriculum framework for teacher education in Norway and discusses the preconditions for intercultural dialogue in educational policies. The analysis illustrates how difficult it is to make issues of difference permeate all aspects of teacher preparation. Thor-André Skrefsrud works as an associate professor in education at the Hedmark University of Applied Sciences in Norway. His research interests include intercultural education, religious education and educational philosophy. In 2012 he received his Ph.D. for a thesis on the concept of intercultural dialogue in teacher education.

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 079692077X

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Global Citizenship, Cultural Citizenship and World Religions in Religion Education by David Chidester Pdf

Author : Jenny Berglund,Yafa Shanneik,Brian Bocking
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319322896

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Religious Education in a Global-Local World by Jenny Berglund,Yafa Shanneik,Brian Bocking Pdf

This book examines Religious Education (RE) in over ten countries, including Australia, Indonesia, Mali, Russia, UK, Ireland, USA, and Canada. Investigating RE from a global and multi-interdisciplinary perspective, it presents research on the diverse past, present, and possible future forms of RE. In doing so, it enhances public and professional understanding of the complex issues and debates surrounding RE in the wider world. The volume emphasizes a student-centred approach, viewing any kind of ‘RE’, or its absence, as a formative lived experience for pupils. It stresses a bottom-up, sociological and ethnographic/anthropological research-based approach to the study of RE, rather than the ‘top down’ approaches which often start from prescriptive legal, ideological or religious standpoints. The twelve chapters in this volume regard RE as an entity that has multiple and contested meanings and interpretations that are constantly negotiated. For some, ‘RE’ means religious nurturing, either tailored to parental views or meant to inculcate a uniform religiosity. For others, RE means learning about the many religious and non-religious world-views and secular ethics that exist, not promoting one religion or another. Some seek to avoid the ambiguous term ‘religious education’, replacing it with terms such as ‘education about religions and beliefs’ or ‘the religious dimension of intercultural education’.

Author : David Coulby,Jagdish Gundara,Crispin Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780749421144

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Intercultural Education by David Coulby,Jagdish Gundara,Crispin Jones Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.