Transforming Religious Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9683-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in Research in Education

Religion is suddenly perceived as high profile internationally (9/11, Israel-Palestine, London bombings). It arouses interest at the level of popular reading (The Da Vinci Code), critical diatribe (Dawkins), and educational controversy (Faith Schools).

Against that background, there is a renewed interest in how schools can best equip boys and girls to be critically intelligent about beliefs and values. It is evident in continental Europe, in the US and in Asia. Throughout the world, Citizenship Education and Moral Education are receiving special attention, but in themselves they are incomplete, for they commonly overlook religion. This book argues the importance that public education should have as a priority not only that pupils become literate, numerate and sociate, but also ‘religiate’.

In this fascinating study, Professor Brian Gates sets out the grounds for the distinctive approach to Religious Education. He argues that this approach, central to which is a comprehensive network of local ecumenical councils, is a model worthy of global imitation.

As part of the argument, Professor Gates examines four areas of complementary concern. The first is the logic of religion in education and the second concerns the process of religious development. Are there stages of understanding? What sense do children and young people have of God and transcendence, as of death and finitude? The third is the relationship between RE and Moral Education - their respective autonomies and mutual challenge. And the fourth is that of Collective Worship and its appropriateness or otherwise in public educational provision.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gates, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Homiletik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Unterrichtsmaterialien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Religionspädagogik, Religionsdidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: Rationale and curriculum content

1. Varieties of Religious Education: a survey of curriculum content
in schools

2. Religious Education: a proper humanism

3. Groundwork for the future: curriculum innovation in
Religious Education

4. Teaching world religions in the UK

5. Understanding the real context for world religions in education

6. The end of religion in the UK and beyond

7. E pluribus unum: the test and promise of Religious Education

8. Signalling transcendence: beyond the National Framework
for Religious Education

PART TWO: Children's religious and moral development

9. 'Readiness' for religion

10. Sensing God

11. Religion in the child's own core curriculum

12. Children understanding death

13. Picturing God: a personal view

14. Children prospecting for commitment

15. Development through Religious Education

PART THREE: Moral Education

16. ME + RE = Kohlberg with a difference

17. Religion, morality & education: constitutionally incongruent?

18. RE needs moral education, ME needs religious education

PART FOUR: Collective Worship

1. School assemblies and the boundaries of moral education

2. Worship where the child is

3. Where now with Collective Worship?

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Gates is Professor of Religious and Moral Education in the Division of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He is Chair of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales and Deputy Chair of the European Association for World Religions in Education