RT Article
T1 A study-of-Religion(s)-Based Religion Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Aims
JF CEPS journal
VO 9
IS 4
SP 11
OP 29
A1 Kjeldsen, Karna
LA English
PB Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741493927
AB Different approaches to religion education have been in place for a long time or developed more recently to meet growing religious and cultural plurality in European countries and schools. In this article, I summarise and discuss basic principles for a study-of-religion(s) approach to religion education, adding arguments and perspectives from critical theories about education in general. I shall also argue that national curricula for, respectively, religion education in Sweden and History in Denmark indicate that analytical-critical skills can be a central part of religion education in elementary and lower secondary public schools. The structure of the article is based on a modified version of the ‘map of history’ developed by the scholar of education and history education Rosie Turner-Bisset who has formulated principles for teaching History in primary schools. The model will be used as a framework, for systematising and discussing key principles of a study-of-religions approach to religion education with reference to three categories: 1) attitudes, 2) skills and concepts, and 3) knowledge.
K1 Citizenship Education
K1 learning about/learning from religion
K1 Religion Education
K1 study of religions
DO 10.26529/cepsj.678