Does Religious Education Have a Future?: Pedagogical and Policy Prospects

ISBN-13: 9780415681704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Clive Erricker; Mark Chater

Opis

Does religious education have a future in English schools? What is it for, what does it aim to do and why do some religious and secular people feel passionately about the survival of RE? This book argues for a radical reform of the subject based on principles of pedagogy set free from religious concerns.

Spis treści

Introduction: The politics and discourse of RE  Section 1. Representations of religion and education: critical enquiries  1. The global context of religion and belief  2. The conflicted context of education  Section 2. Diagnosing RE's pedagogy, provenance and politics  3. The heart of the enterprise: a pedagogical problem  4. Phenomenology and anthropology: the advocacy of religion as an approach to RE  5. Discourse and dissonance in contemporary paradigms of RE  6. The politics of English RE: a portrait of disfunctionality  Section 3. The case for a radical transformation of RE  7. The doors of pedagogical perception: pedagogy as existential stance  8. Towards an educational economy of religions   9. Between education and catastrophe: The futures of RE