“Life Skills Are Everything”: How Do Norwegian Secondary Religious Education Teachers Perceive the Concept of Life Skills?
In 2020 and 2022, new national curricula for inclusive public religious education (RE), which include the interdisciplinary topic “health and life skills,” were introduced in Norwegian secondary schools. To elucidate how Norwegian RE teachers comprehend the concept of life skills, eleven teachers at...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Religious education
Year: 2025, Volume: 120, Issue: 4, Pages: 330-346 |
| Further subjects: | B
existential questions
B Religious Education B ethical competence B life skills |
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| Summary: | In 2020 and 2022, new national curricula for inclusive public religious education (RE), which include the interdisciplinary topic “health and life skills,” were introduced in Norwegian secondary schools. To elucidate how Norwegian RE teachers comprehend the concept of life skills, eleven teachers at six secondary schools were interviewed using a semistructured interview format. Many teachers found the term life skills vague and difficult to define. Although the Norwegian RE curricula link life skills to the exploration of both ethical and existential questions, nine of the eleven teachers predominantly associated life skills with ethical competence. Only two teachers mentioned existential questions. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2025.2510749 |
