RT Article
T1 The secularisation of religious education: humanism, religion and worldview education in the Netherlands in the 1960s
JF Journal of beliefs and values
VO 37
IS 2
SP 186
OP 200
A1 Stolk, Vincent 1984-
A2 Gasenbeek, Bert 1953-
A2 Veugelers, Wiel
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571341277
AB Secularisation is often mentioned as an explanation for changes in worldview education in modern history. Worldview education has become less preoccupied with preaching religious truths and more with developing children's personal worldviews. However, how secularisation exactly explains these changes is not clear. To get a clearer picture, we analyse developments in the Netherlands in the 1960s and compare these with Britain. Our source material primarily consists of educational, religious and humanist journals. We connect developments in worldview education to secularisation understood in three ways: reduced church attachment, the rise of alternatives to the dominant religion, and the decrease in references to religion in public space. Our findings show that changes in theology, decline in church attendance, professionalisation of academic pedagogy, and the growing popularity of dialogical methods strongly influenced the direction of both religious and humanist forms of worldview education in a similar way.
K1 History
K1 Humanism
K1 religious education (RE)
K1 Secularisation
K1 The Netherlands
K1 worldview education
DO 10.1080/13617672.2016.1185225