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Stefan Altmeyer - The Language of Holocaust Remembrance in Educational Contexts
Z Seyma Arslan - A Holistic Approach in Education From a Perspective of the Islamic Understanding of Human Being
Elisabeth Arweck - The Interaction of the Major Religions at Close Quarters: Religiously Mixed Families in the UK
Heinz Streib, Adem Aygün - Religious Socialization and Faith Development of Adolescents in Turkey and Germany: Results from Cross-Cultural Research
Karen Aylward - Children’s conceptualisations of Jesus
Cok Bakker, Ina ter Avest - Self-understandings of (RE) teachers as contributions to school identity
Gerdien Bertram-Troost - Living together in peace? The impact of Dutch schools for secondary education on pupils’ perceptions of religious diversity
Reinhold Boschki - Memory as a key concept in inter-religious education
Oddrun Bråten - The Contribution of Secular Religious Studies to the Development of Multi-faith Approaches to Religious Education in England and Norway
Michael Buchanan - Preparing for Curriculum Change in Religious Education
Mette Buchardt - ’Religion’/’Culture’ as Identity Politics, Knowledge Production and Social Economy in School
Hrisanti Bulugea - An instrument designed to examine the educational value of some patristic texts and their degree of relevance to present day pupils
Ann Casson - The role of Roman Catholic schools in maintaining the ’Chain of Memory’, and their pupils’ perceptions of Catholic identity
Denise Cush - Children of the Goddess: Pagan Theology, the spirituality of young Pagans and the implications for religious education
Marian de Souza - The dual role of unconscious learning in engendering and hindering spiritual growth: Implications for religious education in pluralist contexts
Astrid Dinter - Formation standards, action research and global learning
Recai Dogan - Some Considerations on the Perception of Islam of other Religions in Islamic Religious Education in History and in the Present
Mario d’Souza - The Pursuit of the Common Good in Pluralist Societies: The Summons to Religious Education
Petro du Preez - Dialogue in Religion Education Today (and Beyond): On the Nature of the Child as Interlocutor
Kath Engebretson - Some challenges to inter-faith education in the school and university setting
Trond Enger - Faith Meets Faith
Leona English - Responding to the Gaze: Critiquing a Curriculum that Looks Inward
Lars Eriksen - Learning to be Norwegian: Religion and National Identity in Religious Education in Norway
Judith Everington - ‘I thought theories just helped you write essays but this has changed me’: The role of theory and research in the personal and professional development of beginning RE teachers
Nigel Fancourt - ‘Picking up tips from other people’s religion’: pupils’ understandings of the goals of religious education in England
Vladimir Fedorov - Religious education as a significant means of preventing ethno-religious conflicts in Russia
René Ferguson - Democracy and Religious Education in public schools in South Africa: where are we now?
Anta Filipsone - Religious Literacy or Spiritual Awareness?
John Fisher - Life’s experiences colour the way teachers and students view the impact of schools on the spiritual well-being of students
Leslie Francis - Alternative spiritualities: different personalities? An empirical enquiry among 14- to 16-year-old students
Satoko Fujiwara - The Representations of Our Religions and Other People’s Religions in the Textbooks of Eleven Different Countries
Brian Gates - Stretching the theological imagination across the lifespan
Liam Gearon - Religion, Governance and Education
Carsten Gennerich - Muslim and Christian adolescents evaluation of theological concepts: Is it the context or the faith traditions which make the difference?
Peta Goldburg - From Syllabus Development to Classroom Practice in Study of Religion
Bruce Grelle - Worldview Education, Citizenship, and the Competition of Global Ethics
Zehavit Gross - The Role of Silencing in the School Socialization of Jewish, Christian-Arab, Muslim and Bedouin Girls in Israel
Elisabet Haakedal - Pupils’ Workbooks in the Norwegian Primary School: A comparison of the changing perspectives found in pupils’ expressions of different religions and life views through half a century
Mary Hayward - Re-visiting Commitment and Religious Education
Hans-Günter Heimbrock - Perceiving the other: How to deal with sameness, difference and diversity in RE and in intercultural encounter
Mark Hillis - Covenant Connection: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Christians in the struggle for Indigenous Theology in the Uniting Church in Australia
John Hull - The Prophetic Tradition of Christian and Jewish Faith and the Ethical Transformation of Teaching
Robert Hurley - Religious Education and the Theology of Religions: What the Choice of Methodology Reveals
Brendan Hyde - The religious-spiritual supermarket of Western culture: Do children arbitrarily pick and choose their values and spiritual resources?
Dzintra Iliško - The Challenges for Religious Education in Latvia: Encountering the Difference
Shira Iluz, David Resnick - How does teaching Bible for the matriculation examination in the Israeli State Religious school system correspond to teacher instructional goals?
Arto Kallioniemi - Headmasters’ Conceptions of Celebrating Annual Christian Festivals in Comprehensive Schools: A Finnish Example
Yaacov Katz - Religious Education in the Israeli State Educational System: Different Religions, Different Ideologies and Different Value Systems
Valentin Kozhuharov - Theology and worldview as definers of RE in an Orthodox Christian context
Fedor Kozyrev - Ivan Ilyin’s phenomenological approach to religion and its pedagogical implications
Bernd Krupka - Confirmation 2008 – national survey on confirmants’ and their teachers’expectations of confirmation classes and confirmation
David Lankshear - Church in Wales Schools - a perspective from within the Church
Alma Lanser-van der Velde - Rap and Roots, Youth and Music in immigrant churches
Christina Osbeck, Sidsel Lied - Policies of religious plurality. The comparative cases of Sweden and Norway
Heike Lindner - ‘If you want to understand other people…’ Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue, and the Protestant Responsibilities for Education
Roseanne McDougall - ‘Religious Literacy’ in the University Curriculum
Paul McQuillan - Leading Australian Catholic Schools in An Era of Religious Diversity
Wilna Meijer - Slot, Silence and Concentration: The reader between letter and spirit
Gabriel Moran - Leadership in Religious Organizations
Fred Sheldon Mwesigwa - Moral Education: An Alternative to the Divisive Primary and Secondary School Christian Religious Education and Islamic Religious Education Curriculum
Christina Osbeck, Sidsel Lied - Policies of religious plurality. The comparative cases of Sweden and Norway
Manfred L Pirner - German Religious Education in English. Content and Language Integrated Learning as a Chance for Promoting Intercultural Learning in RE
Annebelle Pithan - Doing Gender in Written Materials and Text Books for Religious Education
Antti Räsänen - Religious Instruction - The Robust Stone Base of Successful Education
Shira Iluz, David Resnick - How does teaching Bible for the matriculation examination in the Israeli State Religious school system correspond to teacher instructional goals?
Yisrael Rich, Elli Schachter - Identity Education: Its Meaning and Measurement in Jewish Religious Secondary Schools
Mandy Robbins - Personality, religion and paranormal belief: a study among teenagers in Northern Ireland
Sturla Sagberg - Children’s Spirituality in Norwegian Kindergartens
Yisrael Rich, Elli Schachter - Identity Education: Its Meaning and Measurement in Jewish Religious Secondary Schools
Günter Schmidt - Christian versus Religious Education
Peter Schreiner - Europeanization of Education, the Place of Religion and the Role of Religious Education
Bernd Schröder - Religious Education and Theology: How to deal with quests and claims of truth?
Friedrich Schweitzer - Principled Pluralism and Theology’s Contribution to Religious Education: A Protestant Perspective
Mualla Selçuk - Under What Conditions can Islamic RE Promote an Understanding of ‘Individualized Religion’?
Geir Skeie - Teachers and researchers cooperating in developing religious education
Karin Sporre - Epistemology from out of a broken body?
Julian Stern - The Spirit of the School: Monologue and Dialogue In and Beyond Religious Education
Heinz Streib, Adem Aygün - Religious Socialization and Faith Development of Adolescents in Turkey and Germany: Results from Cross-Cultural Research
Howard Summers - How do exclusive religious private schools in South Africa cope with religious diversity?
Cok Bakker, Ina ter Avest - Self-understandings of (RE) teachers as contributions to school identity
Martin Ubani - Reaching for one’s own tradition with education: The case of Finland
John Valk - Worldviews, Worldview Communities, and Higher Education
Pille Valk - Religion in education - pupils’ perspectives. Introduction of a comparative study in eight European countries
Leo van der Tuin - Inter-religious education for an inter-religious society? Does learning from religion lead to inter-religious thinking and tolerance? A view from Dutch pupils' and teachers' perspectives, based on empirical research
Inge Versteegt - ”We are a Christian school, so...”: Teachers' perspectives on religious education and religious diversity in the classroom
Marie von der Lippe - Tolerance and religious education
Kevin Wanden - Teachers’ perception of the purpose of classroom religious education
Wolfram Weisse - Religion and Education: A Contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict? The European Project REDCo
Hans-Georg Ziebertz - Xenophobia among Youth in Europe - Results of a ten-country survey
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Stefan Altmeyer - The Language of Holocaust Remembrance in Educational Contexts
Every culture of remembrance is reliant on the social space where it takes place. This space is heavily influenced by forms of public memory like memorial places, monuments, or museums. While these forms are permanently present, special ritualised formats like commemoration ceremonies intend to intervene in the routine of everyday life in order to bear in remembrance what constitutes a society’s historical identity. But do they really fulfil this educational task? What is the (positive or negative) impact of public ritualised remembrance on the individual and its competency of remembrance? Twenty years ago, James E. Young elucidated that ‘how events are remembered depends on the texts now giving them form’. Since then most research has been done on public textual forms, but only slight attention has been focused on the question of how individuals (for example pupils) themselves express the importance of these historical events.
This paper presents the results of a linguistic empirical research study in the field of language of remembrance, especially of Holocaust memory. The questions leading the research are: First, which language is actually used by memory politics and public culture of remembrance in Germany? And second, how do young people speak about these issues? By comparing both manners of speaking, we can draw conclusions on whether or not public remembrance in Germany adequately encourages forming a culture of remembrance for the present as well as for the future. Top
Z Seyma Arslan - A Holistic Approach in Education From a Perspective of the Islamic Understanding of Human Being
The idea of holistic education has an underlying human image which affirms that education for full personhood means recognizing the totality of skills and abilities which a student has. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the Islamic understanding of wholeness of the human being and to interpret how this holistic view leads to a holistic perspective in education.
Focusing on the Islamic concept of fitrah (human nature), we collected all the verses of the Koran related to human nature and tried to categorise this collection. Three categories which can be considered as the scope and content of the concept of fitrah were identified: First is that of human nature, namely a human being as a living creature in existential space. Second is the characteristic features of this being (its potentials and incapabilities). Third includes personal differences between individuals of this being (personal natures).
The first category is most significantly related to the ultimate aims of education such as the ultimate meaning of man's existence. The second category is related to the content of education and how the human being can be improved. The third category indicates a methodological perspective that should be considered in planning and practicing educational processes.
I argue that this categorization may help to think systematically about the relationship between human nature and education, to form a broad and balanced system of education based on an understanding of the full potential of the human being. Top
Elisabeth Arweck - The Interaction of the Major Religions at Close Quarters: Religiously Mixed Families in the UK
What happens in families where different (faith) cultures are present, because mother and father come from different faith backgrounds? Families, for example, in which a Christian may be married to a Muslim or a Jew, or families in which a Hindu may be married to a Sikh or a Christian. How do parents negotiate the practice and belief of their respective traditions? Do such families represent microcosms of processes which occur in wider societies? How do they navigate between different cultural and/or religious traditions to facilitate the everyday, and ensure ‘respect’ and space for ‘the other’? What are the implications for the way in which the children in such families form their own religious and social identities? How do they do this in combination with what they learn in school and with their experiences in the wider community?
A three-year long study in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) at the University of Warwick (June 2006 – May 2009) seeks to address these questions by investigating how young people in the UK come to identify themselves in relation to their parents’ faiths, and the factors which have a bearing on their own religious beliefs. The study engages with members of religiously mixed families through ethnographic methods (interview and participant observation). The proposed paper will report on research to date, by drawing out themes emerging from the interviews conducted with young people and their parents, and indicating implications for religious education in the school context. Top
Karen Aylward - Children’s conceptualisations of Jesus
This paper presents findings from a recent study undertaken in order to investigate children’s conceptualisations of Jesus, and most especially, their understanding of key Christian beliefs regarding the miracles of Jesus (including the virgin birth and resurrection) and the relationship between Jesus and God.