Full Description
This timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education.
Edited by five leading figures in the field, and drawing on expert international scholarship and research, the book provides cutting-edge analysis that bridges the religious and secular in global educational contexts. Considering the role of the United Nations, UNESCO, OECD and PISA in varied international contexts, the book draws on critical analysis of primary empirical research and secondary critique to offer a coherent blend of theoretically complex yet practical analysis of policy implementation. Throughout this accessible and logically structured volume, the authors assert that the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews is one of the most important and pressing issues for religion in education.
As a field-defining work of research into education, religion and worldviews, the book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of religious education, religious studies, philosophy of education and international education.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I: Religions, Worldviews and Societal Landscapes: Origins and Ends, Rights and Obligations 2. Worldviews and World Government: The Civil Religion of State Religious Education 3. Losing (One's) Religion? Pragmatist Reflections on Pluralism, Secularism, and Worldview Education 4. Education on Religion and Worldviews: Perspectives to Child's Right to Religion 5. Globalised Religion(s) and Worldviews in Education 6. Global Education Policy on Religion and Education: UNESCO Part II: Thinking Through Religion and Worldviews Policy in Education: Philosophical and Practical Problematics 7. Rewriting the Historical Narrative of Post-Confessional English Religious Education 8. Critical Religious Education and Worldview Theory 9. Worldviews in Flux: Comparing Separative and Integrative Contexts of Worldview Learning 10. Theologies, Religion and Literacy: Towards Socially Sustainable Religious Education? 11. 'And Our Little Ones Shall Dwell': Is There Space for Religion in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care? Part III: Religions, Worldviews, Education: Pedagogy and Practice 12. Academic and Moral Obligations in Teachers' Work and Teacher Education 13. Inclusive Education from the Perspective of Teachers' Professional Ethics - the Case of Finnish Teachers 14. Worldview Transformation In and Through Education: Mapping the Nexus of Climate Education and Worldview Education 15. Teaching Climate Issues in Finnish Upper Secondary School Science Subjects 16. Religion, Worldviews and Integrated Instruction: How Do Finnish Class Teachers Define the Purpose of Religious Education and Ethics? 17. Watershed Revisited
