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Kavonius, Marjaana; Ubani, Martin – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of religious education and ethics instruction in the development of worldviews in public education using empirical data. The research question of the article is: How is the contribution of RE and Ethics in the development of worldviews perceived among 9th grade students? The study is based on…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Ethics, World Views, Role of Education
Peacock, Lucy – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
This article explores the implications of a proposed move towards a religion and worldviews curriculum in England for contact-based interfaith programmes in schools, through a case study of the Faith and Belief Forum's School Linking programme. Quantitative and qualitative data collected through 1,488 teacher and student surveys, teacher focus…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Intergroup Relations, World Views, Extracurricular Activities
Fancourt, Nigel; Ipgrave, Julia – Research Papers in Education, 2020
In this article, we consider the relationships between schools and their local religious contexts and develop a new empirically-informed middle-level theory for analysing these relationships as a complex framework of negotiations. This framework is based on a meta-synthesis of qualitative data from forty-five case-studies of schools in Great…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Meta Analysis, Foreign Countries, Religious Factors
Hulbert, Sabina; Cooling, Trevor; Bowie, Robert – Education Sciences, 2020
"What If Learning" is a pedagogical approach that allows teachers to deliver traditional content, as prescribed by national curricula, while at the same time promoting character virtues fundamental to Christian ethos. It encourages teachers to present topics from a different perspective, which shapes understanding through the lenses of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethical Instruction, Churches, Protestants
Rich, Cynthia Holder; Ward Holder, R.; Scheopner Torres, Aubrey – Religious Education, 2022
How do race and lived experiences of this construct impact student theological understandings? We embarked on a joint pedagogical venture spanning two continents about race and theology with groups of students whose encounters with race and its impacts on theology were markedly different--including students whose lives and education have been…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Teaching Methods, Race, Racism
Truth Claims, Commitment and Openness in Finnish Islamic and Lutheran Religious Education Classrooms
Kimanen, Anuleena – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
This article examines how two Finnish religious education (RE) teachers, one in Islamic and one in Lutheran RE, seek to construct openness when dealing with religious truth claims and religious commitment, the key areas in which indoctrination might take place. It also observes how these constructions work in the classroom and explains them in the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Islam, Religious Education, Minority Groups
Ubani, Martin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
The focus of this article is on 9th grade students' (N = 9) perceptions on aspects that make them feel authentic in integrated religious education (RE) lessons among students of various faiths. All of the students had previously studied RE in segregated groups. The data was collected in a collaborative teaching experiment in Finland with student…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Social Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Religion
Donnelly, Caitlin; Burns, Stephanie – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to examine how teachers teach and students learn about citizenship education in two faith-based schools in Northern Ireland. The data show that participants in the Catholic school were confident in their own identity; teachers encouraged active engagement with contentious, conflict-related debates and students…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Empathy
Mulder, André; van den Berg, Bas – Religious Education, 2019
In the project "Learning for Life" we developed a hermeneutical--communicative model for worldview education that answers the European challenges of worldview diversity and worldview illiteracy. We implemented the model in a participatory action research project at nine schools for primary education in the Netherlands and monitored the…
Descriptors: Whites, World Views, Hermeneutics, Action Research
Tomovska, Ana – Journal of Peace Education, 2010
The contact hypothesis has arguably been the leading theoretical paradigm for educational interventions in divided societies. However most of the studies with children have been quantitative, focusing on contact outcomes and failing to take account of children's views. Therefore this paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Peace, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research
Hanratty, Brian Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2013
The paper presents a critical evaluation of the Literature of the Troubles Project which was aimed at using literature in an educational context to help cement the process of peace and reconciliation between Northern Ireland's divided communities. The Project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, ran from September 2007 to August 2009. Its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Catholics, Protestants
King, John T. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2009
Teaching about controversial issues is a powerful tool in the repertoire of civic educators. Despite widespread agreement concerning the social, academic, and civic benefits to be gained from discussing controversial public issues within the classroom, empirical research reveals that doing so is a rare occurrence. While the literature explains…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teaching Methods, Risk, Foreign Countries