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XIX EUROPEAN FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
Intercultural dialogue in Europe - Contribution of catholic Religious Education in schools Vienna, 15–19 April2020 https://www.kardinal-koenig-haus.at/ Article
Robert Jackson and Kevin O’Grady, ‘The religious and worldview dimension of intercultural education: The Council of Europe’s contribution’, Intercultural Education, 30, 3 (2019): 247-59. |
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This article traces the Council of Europe’s work on teaching about religions and non-religious worldviews, regarded as an important contributor to intercultural education. It explains why studies of religions came late in the Council of Europe’s educational work and traces the development of a project which led to a Recommendation from its Committee of Ministers on teaching about religions and non-religious worldviews. Further information is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14675986.2018.1539306 Information supplied by Robert Jackson |
An International Conference on Catholic Religious Education in Schools
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The EFTRE Journal
EFTRE produces its own journal about twice a year to which you are invited to publish - this is a free publication of the EFTRE community and if you would like to subscribe to this then please contact us. This journal is mostly aimed at teachers of religious education and teacher educators working with pre-service and in-service teachers.
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Shared Papers
We are also happy to share via this website papers that colleagues want or papers that we think will be of interest to the EFTRE community.
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This is a discussion document on the place of Religious Education in the new schools system in the UK with its wider emphasis on a free market approach to education and in a changing political, educational and religious landscape.
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This paper "Can we teach morality without influencing the worldview of students" is by van der Kooil, J; de Ruyter, D and Miedema, S and asks if teaching morality means paying attention to a worldview.
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This is a link to Introducing Religious Eduction an interpretive approach. Robert Jackson has written a new introduction to his book Religious Education an interpretive approach. The introduction and a PDF of the book is now available in the EWC online library.
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Recommended Books
Bert Roebben (2016)
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Theology Made in Dignity: On the Precarious Role of Theology in Religious Education. In a post-secular society contemporaries are challenged to raise and face existential questions in the midst of a plurality of (religious and non-religious) worldviews. Children, adolescents and young adults are especially eager for orientation in negotiating this plurality. Religious Education in European schools can provide them with solid insights and a safe space to accept this challenge. In this book the narrative, communicative and spiritual dimensions of religious education are discussed - http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=10415
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Projects
The READY project (Religious Education and Diversity) is an Erasmus+ project. Using a combination of research, eTwinning and study visits the project is exploring the variety of approaches to subject teaching and learning in religious education. More about the project can be discovered at: http://www.readyproject.eu
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