Religious literacy in the curriculum in compulsory education in Austria, Scotland and Sweden - a three-country policy comparison
This article presents analyses of curricula in religious education (RE) for public schools in Austria, Scotland, and Sweden. A curricula is the plan that outlines the goals, content and outcomes in education. A critical discourse analysis approach (CDA) is used to explore how each national RE curric...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2020, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 132-149 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Austria
/ Swedes
/ Scotland
/ Religion
/ Pflichtunterricht
/ Didactics
/ Learning success
/ Interreligiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AH Religious education KBB German language area KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KBF British Isles RF Christian education; catechetics ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
curriculam theory
B Religious Education B curriculam B Religious Literacy |
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| Summary: | This article presents analyses of curricula in religious education (RE) for public schools in Austria, Scotland, and Sweden. A curricula is the plan that outlines the goals, content and outcomes in education. A critical discourse analysis approach (CDA) is used to explore how each national RE curricula constructs (a) the aims, status and purpose of state-maintained RE (b) the teaching and learning objectives, and contents, and (c) what skills and attitudes the processes of learning aim to develop; together, these can be considered to construct students' religious literacy in the curricula. Theoretical frameworks are from curriculum studies, as well as from literacy studies, with the aim of deepening the knowledge on RE, as well as the discussion on religious literacies from various national curriculum contexts. The analysis shows that although the curricula focus on the same topic, namely RE, they rely on different conceptions of curriculum, as well as on various forms of religious literacy. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2020.1737909 |