Three Phases of Religious Education: Learning, Evaluation and Commitment
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IS analysed into three phases: Learning, Evaluation and Commitment. What has to be learned has logical priority and is to be understood in terms of a basic conception, in several dimensions, of world-faiths, abstracted from the living religions a pupil meets. What is learnt can t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Paternoster Periodicals
[1999]
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Journal of education & Christian belief
Year: 1999, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-135 |
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| Summary: | RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IS analysed into three phases: Learning, Evaluation and Commitment. What has to be learned has logical priority and is to be understood in terms of a basic conception, in several dimensions, of world-faiths, abstracted from the living religions a pupil meets. What is learnt can then be evaluated, both as a personal life-option and/or as one making factual claims about the universe. On the latter alternative evaluation becomes the application of truth-criteria and a scheme of such criteria is set out and defended. Pupils finally need to know what is involved in proceeding from belief to a substantive faith commitment, if they should so desire. Teachers should also encourage pupils in a commitment to religious reflection as a life-long quest. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of education & Christian belief
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/205699719900300207 |