Full Description
As diversity increases across the world, there is renewed interest in the place of religion in the public sphere. Is religion a private matter or of concern to everyone - even if they are not religious? What should religious education look like in the public sphere? Is religious education something for everyone, in all schools? What is educational about religious education? What is the justification for religious education? How do we make sense of religion itself, bearing in mind the wide variety of views and traditions?
The chapters in Religion and Education: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education? deal with these questions, focusing particularly on the two constituting elements of religious education: religion and education. Rather than discussing curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, the authors delve into more fundamental questions and concerns. Through this they provide a range of different responses to the question of whether religion and education may have become the 'forgotten dimensions' of contemporary religious education.
Covering different educational views and traditions, and exploring a range of different religious ideas, traditions, and practices, whilst connecting this all to the challenge of religious education in the public sphere, this book seeks to make a contribution to the ongoing conversation about the importance of religious education for all.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introducing: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education
Gert Biesta and Patricia Hannam
1 Education, Education, Education: Reflections on a Missing Dimension
Gert Biesta
2 Education as Social Practice
Ruth Heilbronn
3 Education and Belonging to a Subject Matter
David Aldridge
4 Religion, Reductionism and Pedagogical Reduction
David Lewin
5 'Buddhism Is Not a Religion, But Paganism Is': The Applicability of the Concept of 'Religion' to Dharmic and Nature-Based Traditions, and the Implications for Religious Education
Denise Cush and Catherine Robinson
6 Teaching about Islam: From Essentialism to Hermeneutics: An Interview with Farid Panjwani and Lynn Revell, by Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta, Farid Panjwani and Lynn Revell
7 On the Precarious Role of Theology in Religious Education
Sean Whittle
8 Implicit Knowledge Structures in English Religious Studies Public Exam Questions: How Exam Questions Frame Knowledge, the Experience of Learning, and Pedagogy
Robert A. Bowie
9 What Should Religious Education Seek to Achieve in the Public Sphere?
Patricia Hannam
10 Reflections on the Seminar on Religion and Education: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education
Joyce Miller
Afterword: Reflecting on the Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education: Conclusions and Ways Forward
Patricia Hannam and Gert Biesta
Index
