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| 1: Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit |
Religious Education (RE) encompasses both teaching about religion and teaching from religion, making it a broad and diverse field. Consequently, approaches to RE vary significantly across the globe. The theorization of religions, beliefs, values, and their associated practices influences the pedagogical methods, learning objectives, curricular materials, and outcomes linked to their teaching, and vice versa. Moreover, these aspects are highly contextualized, reflecting local, national, and international priorities and norms. This session brings together papers that examine case studies from around the world to explore how schools in different countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia approach RE in its multiple forms. By examining these diverse cases and the contexts in which they are situated, these papers seek to shed light on the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which RE is approached, implemented, and taught within distinct cultural, societal, and educational frameworks.
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Religious Education (RE) encompasses both teaching about religion and teaching from religion, making it a broad and diverse field. Consequently, approaches to RE vary significantly across the globe. The theorization of religions, beliefs, values, and their associated practices influences the pedagogical methods, learning objectives, curricular materials, and outcomes linked to their teaching, and vice versa. Moreover, these aspects are highly contextualized, reflecting local, national, and international priorities and norms. This session brings together papers that examine case studies from around the world to explore how schools in different countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia approach RE in its multiple forms. By examining these diverse cases and the contexts in which they are situated, these papers seek to shed light on the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which RE is approached, implemented, and taught within distinct cultural, societal, and educational frameworks.