RT Article
T1 The interpretive approach to religious education: challenging Thompson’s interpretation
JF Journal of beliefs and values
VO 33
IS 1
SP 1
OP 9
A1 Jackson, Robert
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837735697
AB In a recent book chapter, Matthew Thompson makes some criticisms of my work, including the interpretive approach to religious education and the research and activity of Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit. Against the background of a discussion of religious education in the public sphere, my response challenges Thompson’s account, commenting on his own position in relation to dialogical approaches to religious education. The article rehearses my long held view that the ideal form of religious education in fully state funded schools of a liberal democracy should be ‘secular’ but not ‘secularist’; there should be no implication of an axiomatic secular humanist interpretation of religions.
K1 Dialogue
K1 interpretive approach
K1 Public Sphere
K1 Religious Education
K1 Secularism
K1 Secularity
DO 10.1080/13617672.2012.650024