Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality

by Jackson,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415302715
• ISBN10: 0415302714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-10
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education in order to devise approaches and formulate policies and procedures that are fair to all.

Author Biography

Robert Jackson is Professor of Education and Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick where he is also Director of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(3)
Religious education in the context of plurality	4	(18)
Religious and cultural heritage	22	(17)
State funding for religious schools?	39	(19)
Postmodernist approaches to religious education	58	(17)
Religious education as religious literacy	75	(12)
Interpretive approaches to religious education	87	(22)
Dialogical approaches to religious education	109	(17)
Religious education's contribution to intercultural education, citizenship education and values education	126	(17)
The relevance of research to religious education	143	(18)
Towards a pluralistic religious education	161	(20)
Notes	181	(9)
References	190	(24)
Index	214