Transforming Religious Education - Beliefs and Values under Scrutiny

Zusammenfassung Religion arouses interest at the level of reading ("The Da Vinci Code"), critical diatribe (Dawkins), and educational controversy (Faith Schools). 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'. 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.   P icturing 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?                                                       ...

Product details

• Authors: Brian Gates, Gates Brian
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2007
• EAN: 9780826496836
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9683-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Continuum Studies in Research; Continuum Studies in Research; Continuum Studies in Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices, Educational: Religious studies