| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 156 pages) |
| Contents |
Scandinavian Democracies Learning Diversity From Socialisation Between Lutherans to Training of Imams / Erik Amnå -- Challenges to Building Sustainable Democracies: Lessons from the Margins. Response to Erik Amnå / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers -- Islam in Education: A Contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict? / Dan-Paul Jozsa -- Religious Youth in a Secular Culture: Response to Dan-Paul Jozsa / Geir Skeie -- Global Citizenship Education and Equality: Gendered Hegemonies, Tensions and a Global Gender Ethic / Madeleine Arnot -- What Name Are We? Global Citizenship Education for Whom? Response to Madeleine Arnot / Karin Sporre -- Diversity and Teacher Education: Explorations of a Social Justice Framework / Denise Zinn and André Keet -- Blind Spots and Privileged Places: Response to Denise Zinn and André Keet / Kerstin vom Brömssen -- Introduction / Karin Sporre and Jan Mannberg -- Worldviews of Today: Teaching for Dialogue and Mutual Understanding / John Valk -- Vital Issues, Worldviews and Religions: Challenges to Religious Education Today / Sven Hartman -- Namibia and South Africa as Examples of Religious and Moral Education in Changing Societies / Christo Lombard -- Emerging African Perspectives on Values in a Globalizing World / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers |
| Summary |
Education is a societal matter and takes place in relation to societal changes. Today, in many countries, it has to grapple with diversity and differences brought about by migration and changes in gender relations. Questions of values, human rights and the role of religions are raised. In this book scholars from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Namibia and South Africa discuss the issues above. Similarities as well as differences are highlighted. The varied contributors engage in a North-South dialogue. Among the questions addressed are: Can the Scandinavian countries be understood as more religious than their up-to-date, seemingly secularist reputation has led us to believe? How do some European, Muslim, Christian and secular pupils understand the religious education they receive? Could a global citizenship education, with a gendered understanding as an integral part, be accomplished? 'Diversity' and 'social justice': what does it take to theoretically integrate these two crucial parameters in education, in South Africa, and in Sweden? The role of religious and values education under changing circumstances is explored through the diverse contributions, that also challenge the hegemony of a Western understanding of democracy, among other values. The purpose of this is to assess what could now constitute global educational common ground |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Religious education.
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EDUCATION Aims & Objectives.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Religious education
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Social change
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Sociale verandering.
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Sociale waarden.
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Godsdienst.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sporre, Karin.
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Mannberg, Jan
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| ISBN |
9789048196289 |
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9048196280 |
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9789048196272 |
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9048196272 |
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