What do teachers do to stimulate the understanding of the other in interreligious classroom communication? Empirical research into dialogical communication in religiously pluriform learning situations in Catholic primary schools

How do pupils in dialogical classroom communication understand the otherness of peers who belong to religions different from their own? We distinguish between three aspects of dialogical communication that are conducive to understanding pupils’ otherness: orientation, appropriation, and evaluation....

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Published in:Journal of beliefs and values
Authors: van Eersel, San (Author) ; Hermans, Chris (Author) ; Sleegers, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2010
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2010, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-141
Further subjects:B classroom communication
B Evaluation
B Appropriation
B Stiles
B verbal response modes
B Religious Education
B Interreligious Learning
B Bakhtin
B Orientation
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Summary:How do pupils in dialogical classroom communication understand the otherness of peers who belong to religions different from their own? We distinguish between three aspects of dialogical communication that are conducive to understanding pupils’ otherness: orientation, appropriation, and evaluation. To what extent do teachers apply these three aspects in interreligious classroom communication? To answer this question we investigated the interaction between teachers and pupils in nine lessons on interreligious communication in Catholic primary schools in the Netherlands. The results show that both teachers and pupils seem to be very chary in their use of orientation, appropriation, and evaluation, so understanding of the otherness of pupils from different religions is not stimulated.
ISSN:1469-9362
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2010.503608