Controversial Issues in Religious Education on Ethics, Values, and Beliefs

Perspectives from Northern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-96727-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

This book presents a broad and in-depth, research-based source for exploring how teaching controversial issues on ethics, values, and beliefs can be conducted in Religious Education. How may teachers conduct an objective and comprehensive education that respects children's and young people's divergent views, based on traditions and beliefs that characterize their background and family discourse and/or in personal standpoints? The chapters explore the development of pedagogical and didactical approaches, with special regard to the implementation of teaching on issues that may be experienced as sensitive and contentious. The chapters represent a variety of disciplinary fields, including philosophy, science of religion, ethics, intercultural education, values education, worldview education, and social sustainability. The book may serve as course literature in Teacher education, and in in-service training for teachers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franck, Olof

Liljefors Persson, Bodil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsunterricht
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Controversial Issues in Religious Education: Powerful Knowledge and Democratic Practices in Relation to Existential Questions and Values Education.- Chapter 2. Navigating Controversies in Worldview Education: A
Non-doxastic Proposal.- Chapter 3. Depolarizing Strategies for Teaching the Theory of Evolution in Worldview Education.- Chapter 4. Teaching Identity as a Controversial Issue: A Contribution to the Discussion on Religious Literacy in Religious Education.- Chapter 5. Faith and Science in the Classroom: A Liberal Educational Perspective.- Chapter 6. Democracy’s Risk: Preparing Teachers for Ideological Heterodoxy.- Chapter 7. The Discord Between Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Education: Working Towards Harmony.- Chapter 8. Educational Environments for the Constructive Discussion of Controversial Issues: An Examination and Evaluation of Three Conceptual Metaphors.- Chapter 9. Controversial Issues Education: Could Fiction-Based Ethics Teaching Be a Way Forward?.- Chapter 10. “It Had Gone Great in the Sixth Grade”: Teaching About Controversial Issues in Middle School.- Chapter 11. Staging and Exploring Power and Oppression:Contributions of Forum Theatre and Critical Pedagogy
to Controversial Issues Education in RE.- Chapter 12. The Teaching of Sexuality, Consent, Relationships, and Gender in Swedish Religious Education: A Controversial Issue?.

Über Autor(innen)

Olof Franck is a Professor in the Department of Pedagogical Curricular and Professional Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Bodil Liljefors Persson is a Professor of History of Religions at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malmö University, Sweden.