Spiritual and Religious Education

by Leicester,Mal; Leicester,Mal

• ISBN13: 9780750710060
• ISBN10: 0750710063
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135698614
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

A comprehensive treatment of the current concern with values in education. In six volumes, a team of over 120 contributors and experts from around the world examine the issues and place them in a context of culture and diversity. Volumes 1 to 3 provide a wide-ranging consideration of the diversity of values in education at all levels, and thus represents a framework for the focus of Volumes 4 to 6, which focus more specifically on values education (moral, religious, spiritual and political). Overall the six volumes bring together the fundamental domain of values with the important issue of pluralism and the world of independent cultural traditions, to generate new, fruitful and progressive reflection and exemplars of good practice. Handomsley bound and printed they are an essential reference tool and represent a significant contribution of interest and benefit to educators, policy makers, parents, academic, researchers and student teachers. Volume 5 distinguishes religious and spiritual education, andtakes a multifaith approach to pedagogic, curricular and resource issues. The important area of collective workshop is also addressed.

Author Biography

David Adshead: Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland, UK Derek Bastide: Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Sport, University of Brighton, UK Vivienne Baumfield: Senior Lecturer in Education, Department of Education, University of Newcastle, UK Stephen Bigger: Head of Applied Education Studies, University College, Worcester, UK Marian Carter: Tutor, Adult Theological Education, Centre of Christian Theology and Education, University College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK Jennifer Chapa: Research Associate in Moral Education and Human Resource Development, Baha'i World Centre, Haifa, Israel Rhett Diessner: Professor of Psychology and Education at Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, USA Cynthia K. Dixon: Associate Professor in Religious Studies, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Toinette M. Eugene: Associate Professor, Christian Social Ethics, Farnett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Illinois, USA Judith Everington: Senior Lecturer in Religious Education, Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK Brian E. Gates: Professor and Head of Department of Religion and Ethics, St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK Jeannette Gill: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth, UK Andrew Hannan: Director of Research and Reader in Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth, UK John M. Hull: Professor of Religious Education, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK Robert Jackson: Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK Winifred Wing Han Lamb: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Australian National University, Australia Mal Leicester: Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education, Warwick University, UK Nick Mead: Senior Lecturer in Religious Education, Westminster College, Oxford, UK Siebren Miedema: Professor in Education, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Celia Modgil: Senior Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths College, London University, UK Sohan Modgil: Reader in Educational Research and Development, University of Brighton, UK Yoshiko Nomura: Director General, Nomura Centre for Lifelong Integrated Education, Tokyo, Japan Richard Pearce: Associate Fellow, Continuing Education, University of Warwick, UK Alex Rodger: Director, Values Education Project, Dundee, UK Doret de Ruyter: Associate Professor in Education, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands John Shortt: Head of Research and Development at the Stapleford Centre, Editor of Journal of Education and Christian Belief (formerly Spectrum) and formerly Director of Charis Project R. Thompson: Retired Headteacher, The Grange School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Editors' Foreword	ix
Mal Leicester
Celia Modgil
Sohan Modgil
Part One: Spiritual Education
Moral, Spiritual, Religious - Are They Synonymous?	3	(12)
Alex Rodger
Religious Education, Spirituality and Antiracism	15	(10)
Stephen Bigger
Facilitating Spiritual Development in the Context of Cultural Diversity	25	(10)
David Adshead
Moral Education and Lifelong Integrated Education	35	(5)
Yoshiko Nomura
Newspapers and Spiritual Development: a Perspective on Religious Education	40	(13)
Richard Pearce
`The Open Heaven': Fostering Dialogue and Understanding in the Context of Religious Diversity	53	(11)
Winifred Wing Han Lamb
``Live by the Word and Keep Walking'': Religious Education and Contextualization in a Culture of Disbelief	64	(11)
Toinette M. Eugene
Part Two: Religious Education
Religionism and Religious Education	75	(11)
John M. Hull
Law, Politics and Religious Education in England and Wales: Some History, Some Stories and Some Observations	86	(14)
Robert Jackson
Religious Education: Cinderella Does Go to the Ball	100	(10)
Derek Bastide
Values, Virtues, Voluntaryism: the Contribution of Anglican Church Schools to Education in a Multicultural Society	110	(11)
Marian Carter
Values Education in Baha'i Schools	121	(12)
Jennifer Chapa
Rhett Diessner
Denominational Schools in the Netherlands	133	(9)
Doret de Ruyter
Siebren Miedema
The Values of Grant-maintained Status: the Case of Catholic Schools	142	(11)
Andrew Hannan
How Local should a Local Agreed Syllabus for RE be?	153	(7)
Vivienne Baumfield
The Rationale of the Charis Project	160	(11)
John Shortt
The End of Religion in the UK and Beyond	171	(12)
Brian E. Gates
Mission Impossible? Religious Education in the 1990s	183	(14)
Judith Everington
Mentoring Religious Education Teaching in Secondary Schools	197	(7)
Nick Mead
Collective Worship in a Predominantly Muslim LEA Upper School	204	(5)
R. Thompson
Approaches to Collective Worship in Multifaith Schools	209	(11)
Jeannette Gill
Beliefs and Values: the Western Australian Experience	220	(13)
Cynthia K. Dixon
Index	233