Whatever Happened To Religious Education

Author : Penny Thompson
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0718830393

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Whatever Happened to Religious Education? by Penny Thompson Pdf

In this book, Penny Thompson discusses the place of Christianity in Religious Education from 1963. She explores the reasons why the committed teaching of the Christian faith has been slowly undermined, and aims to show that the current state of boththeory and practice is incoherent and unsustainable. Her arguments explore the debates and historical developments in this sector, over the past forty years, and convincingly propose that the way forward to is to recover the teaching of Christianityin an open and self-critical way. OFSTED reports that the level of unsatisfactory staffing in RE is now a matter of 'deep concern'. This book seeks to inspire and motivate those who might not be attracted to RE teaching as a profession, and details suggestions which may help to alter this current state of affairs. The author draws on primary sources, her own experiences and interviews with prominent individuals in the profession.

Author : Dr David Torevell,Dr Marius C Felderhof,Mrs Penny Thompson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781409477761

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Inspiring Faith in Schools by Dr David Torevell,Dr Marius C Felderhof,Mrs Penny Thompson Pdf

Inspiring Faith in Schools addresses the privileging of secularism that appears to affect RE in countries influenced by modern western thought. The authors argue that a more engaging form of RE would emerge if religious life were to inhabit centre stage. Currently religious faith is made to hover in the wings awaiting the call to face the inquisitorial challenge of the modern day enquirer. The consequent relationship between pupil and the Divine as the purpose of study is then already intrinsically irreligious, as indicated in the Book of Job by putting God in the dock, whereas it is the pupil who should be (cross-)examining his or her life. What are the ways of exciting and engaging the young so that they begin to entertain the possibility of religious life as a genuine option for themselves? Leading scholars in philosophy and theology from the UK, Australia, Canada and the USA come together to address these questions together with RE experts. Marius Felderhof writes an Afterword summing up the challenges faced by such a re-visioning of RE.

Author : William Kailer Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:31951000825284G

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What Happened to Religious Education? by William Kailer Dunn Pdf

Author : Jonathan Doney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000317800

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Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology by Jonathan Doney Pdf

This book presents the theoretical basis and practical steps involved in using Statement Archaeology, an innovative method that enhances understandings of policy development, exemplifying its use in relation to one curriculum subject, Religious Education. The book is the first of its kind to fully describe the theoretical foundations of Statement Archaeology and the practical steps in its deployment, acting as a methodological handbook that will enable readers to use the method subsequently in their own research. Further, the book offers an unparalleled contribution to the historical account of the development and maintenance of compulsory RE in English state-maintained schools and uses this to engage with key current debates in Religious Education policy. It unearths important insights into how the present is built, informs future policy direction and potential implementation strategies, and helps prevent the repetition of unsuccessful past endeavours. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of religious education, educational policy and politics, and research methods in education.

Author : Julian Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350037120

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Teaching Religious Education by Julian Stern Pdf

An updated, expanded, edition of the popular textbook for student and practising teachers of religious education. It is a book for and about teaching and learning religious education in schools, which is a lively and open-ended subject, ideal for those wanting to explore how people understand the world, and how they live their lives. A wide range of religious and non-religious ways of life are explored. New to this edition are descriptions of more recent research on teaching and learning religious education from the UK, Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Also included are personal accounts written by pupils, teachers and researchers, giving voice to those learning and researching religious education in practice. As well as revising and extending every chapter of the first edition, there are brand-new chapters on: - the real lives of teachers and pupils in religious education - religious education around the world - spirituality - thinking about philosophy, truth, and religious education - ethics, rights, values and virtues - creativity and religious education. A key feature of the book is the 33 classroom activities for learners aged 7 to 18, which are also designed for use by student and practising teachers. These activities enable those studying and teaching religious education to be active researchers.

Author : Abdurrahman HENDEK
Publisher : Dem
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9786058018372

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Religious Education Policy in Turkey and England: A Comparative Perspective by Abdurrahman HENDEK Pdf

Author : Kath Engebretson,Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Liam Gearon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1173 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402092602

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International Handbook of Inter-religious Education by Kath Engebretson,Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Liam Gearon Pdf

This Handbook is based on the conviction of its editors and contributing authors that understanding and acceptance of, as well as collaboration between religions has essential educational value. The development of this Handbook rests on the f- ther assumption that interreligious education has an important role in elucidating the global demand for human rights, justice, and peace. Interreligious education reveals that the creeds and holy books of the world’s religions teach about sp- itual systems that reject violence and the individualistic pursuit of economic and political gain, and call their followers to compassion for every human being. It also seeks to lead students to an awareness that the followers of religions across the world need to be, and to grow in, dialogical relationships of respect and understa- ing. An essential aim of interreligious education is the promotion of understanding and engagement between people of different religions and, therefore, it has great potential to contribute to the common good of the global community. Interreligious education has grown from the interfaith movement, whose beg- ning is usually identi?ed with the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. This was the ?rst time in history that leaders of the eastern and we- ern religions had come together for dialogue, and to consider working together for global unity.

Author : Brenda Watson,Penny Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317865995

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The Effective Teaching of Religious Education by Brenda Watson,Penny Thompson Pdf

The Effective Teaching of Religious Education provides an accessible yet intellectually rigorous resource for all those involved in the teaching of RE in schools today. Written with the needs of specialist and non-specialist teachers in mind, in both the primary and secondary sectors, it successfully integrates theory and practice, encouraging debate and reflection on a broad range of issues in what is often regarded as a complex and often controversial subject area. The second edition has been written with the collaboration of a new co-author, Penny Thompson and has been thoroughly updated, revised and extended to include: A new chapter on the place of Christianity in RE New material on the purpose of RE and on the relationship of RE to other subjects A new Appendix on tackling assessment and syllabus requirements A new companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/watson-thompson including an overview of the use of ICT in RE teaching, web links and practical resources for use in the classroom.

Author : Marius Felderhof,Penny Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472528100

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Teaching Virtue by Marius Felderhof,Penny Thompson Pdf

In much of the world, religious traditions are seriously valued but, in the context of religious plurality, this sets educationalists an enormous challenge. This book provides a way forward in exploring religious life whilst showing how bridges might be built between diverse religious traditions. Teaching Virtue puts engagement with religious life - and virtue ethics - at the heart of religious education, encouraging 'learning from' religion rather than 'learning about' religion. The authors focus on eight key virtues, examining these for what they can offer of religious value to pupils and teachers. Individual chapters put the discussion into context by offering a vision of what religious education in the future could look like; the need for responsible religious education; a historical review of moral education and an introduction to virtue ethics. Lesson plans and examples demonstrate how the virtues may be approached in the classroom, making it an invaluable guide for all involved in teaching religious education.

Author : Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Kathleen Engebretson,Robert Jackson,Andrew McGrady
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1417 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402052460

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International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions in Education by Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Kathleen Engebretson,Robert Jackson,Andrew McGrady Pdf

In today’s pluralistic world, many cultures feel a shift in the relationship of people with religious traditions. A corresponding movement is a resurgence of interest in human spirituality. This Handbook presents the views of education scholars who engage these concepts every day, in a collection of essays reflecting the international state of the discipline. Out of these rises a vision for the emergence of a just and peaceful world.

Author : Michael Robert Miller
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781932792805

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Doing More with Life by Michael Robert Miller Pdf

Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can clarify how God calls all people, allow mentoring across specific vocations, and inspire future generations to think of their lives as vocations.

Author : George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1667 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810884939

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Encyclopedia of Christian Education by George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.

Author : Helena Miller,Lisa D. Grant,Alex Pomson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1299 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789400703544

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International Handbook of Jewish Education by Helena Miller,Lisa D. Grant,Alex Pomson Pdf

The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning –the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.

Author : James Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000417142

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A Christian Education in the Virtues by James Arthur Pdf

A Christian Education in the Virtues examines the connection between human nature and human flourishing. It draws on ancient and medieval sources to explore the formation of the person based on a Christian anthropology, emphasising the communal nature of the virtuous life and provides a richer approach to the question of contemporary character education. The book argues that the only way to understand and construct our character virtues is to have a clear picture of what is the purpose and meaning of human life. It highlights the importance of engaging with moral issues and makes the case that, for Christian educators, human flourishing is inseparable from God’s active relationship to human beings. The book also explores a teleological approach to character education goals. To educate the whole person in the light of an all-embracing Christian worldview is challenged by secular and liberal ideology and is often seen as irrational to the modern mind. Overall, the text seeks to demonstrate that many aspects of a Neo-Aristotelian-Thomist theoretical underpinning for Christian character education holds out a viable option for Christians. It therefore argues the case for the educational potential of Christian character education. This important book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and students in the fields of character and virtue education, religious education and the philosophy of education. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003141877, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Elisabeth Arweck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134790463

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Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity by Elisabeth Arweck Pdf

Investigating the hitherto unexplored topic of how young people understand and relate to religious diversity in the social context in which they are growing up, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of literature on religious diversity and multiculturalism. It closes a gap in knowledge about young people’s attitudes to religious diversity, and reports data gathered across the whole of the UK as well as comparative chapters on Canada, USA and continental Europe. Reporting findings from both qualitative and quantitative research which reveal, for example, the importance of the particular social and geographical context within which young people are embedded, the volume addresses young people’s attitudes towards the range of 'world religions’ as well as non-religious stances and offers an interdisciplinary approach through the different analytical perspectives of the contributors.