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Author Stern, Julian

Title Schools and Religions : Imagining the Real
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Continuum Studies in Research in Education
Continuum studies in research in education.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: the philosophy of schooling; Action philosophy; Philosophers and more; Section A: Dialogue, community, society and learning; 2 The self and inclusion: imagining the real; Introduction; The learning person; Connection; Dialogue; 3 Community and society: fundamentals and fundamentalism; Introduction; Communities and societies; Testing community and society: fundamentalism and modernism; Heteroglot communities in a world with fundamentalism; Conclusion: modelling diversity and religion
4 Schooling and learnings to live hunaan lives properlyIntroduction: learning school or learning community?; What are schools?; Ambiguities of schools; Conclusion: the fictive school; 5 Inclusive research: voicing and learning; Introducing inclusive research; Voicing pupils, teachers and the wider school community; Beyond false dichotomies in research; Conclusion; Section B: Religion and education; 6 Investigating text and context; Introduction; Exploring the Bible: the Biblos project; Approaching the Qur''an; The Bhagavad Gita and young children; Conclusion; 7 Dialogue within and between
IntroductionDialogue in religious education across Europe; Dialogue and children''s voices; Conclusion: dialogue in schools and between nations; 8 Inclusions and religious education; Introduction: the ''church of inclusion''?; Religious education curricular and pedagogic inclusiveness; Religious education and special educational needs: three case studies; Religious education, inclusion and exclusion, and new religious movements; Conclusion; 9 Teaching and learning: about and from; Introduction; Research on religious education; Research on pedagogy
The varieties of religious education pedagogyConclusion; 10 Religious education and citizenships; Introduction; Values and citizenship; Research into the impact of religious education and citizenship education; Religion within citizenship and human rights education; Case studies of citizenship work in religious education; Conclusion; Section C: Learning, research and practice: schools and religions with attitude; 11 Creativity and creation: beyond the cuckoo clock; Introduction: a dialogue of creation; The presence and absence of creativity; Agency, originality and value
Creativity in schools and religious educationMusic in religious education; Conclusion; 12 Blinded by the vision: schools, religions, policies and politics; Introduction: vision and policy; Policy or not?; Who makes policy?; The impact of policy models on leadership and followership; Researching the impact of policy; Conclusion: enlightened policy; 13 Learning beyond school: worldly homework; Introduction: schools, homes, families and worlds; Loving and hating homework; Expansion homework: schooling beyond school, using computers
Summary The link between schools and religions is an area of lively and passionate debate. In this meticulously researched volume, Julian Stern analyzes the role that religion can play in fostering communities in schools and its implications for social, cultural and political developments in both national and international contexts. Drawing heavily on Vygoyskyan social contructivism and Buber''s research into human relationships, Stern constructs an innovative and challenging philosophy of schooling which places schools at the heart of two of the main challenges of the twenty-first century - social in
Notes Application homework: the meaning of schooling for the rest of the world
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Subject Religion in the public schools.
Church and education.
Christian education.
Social integration.
Social Integration
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
Christian education
Church and education
Religion in the public schools
Social integration
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441147660
1441147667