Religious Education in the Mirror of a Life Trajectory

ISBN-13: 9780367584757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 122 str.

Abdulkader Tayob

Opis

The study of religious education is of great interest in analysing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multi-cultural and multi-religious societies and states. Sitting between the new policies and school demographics, teachers and educators have been key in shaping how educational policy is enacted. This book focuses o

Spis treści

Introduction: Life Trajectories of Educators Between Religion and Religious Education  1. RE Rooted in Principal’s Biography  2. Trailing a Missionary Teacher’s Position and Contributions in Zambian Religious Education  3. The Life Trajectory of the Finnish Religious Educator  4. Dialogical Religious Education in the Life Trajectories of Political and Religious Stakeholders in Hamburg  5. Writing Against the Grain: The Challenge of Modernism in the Autobiographical Writings of Frances Banks—Religious Educator  6. Continuity and Change: Experiences of Teaching Religious Education in the Light of a Life Trajectory of Hifz and Secular Education  7. Islamic Modernism and Colonial Education in Northern Nigeria: Na’ibi Sulaiman Wali (1927–2013)

O autorze

Abdulkader Tayob holds the chair in Islam, Religious Values and Public Life in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has published extensively on Islam in South Africa and modern Muslim intellectuals. Currently, he leads a project on religion education in South Africa that interrogates the history and future of the programme with social scientists, educators and teachers.