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Education, Religion and Diversity - Developing a new model of religious education (Paperback)
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Education, Religion and Diversity - Developing a new model of religious education (Paperback)
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"In this thoughtful and provocative book Philip Barnes challenges
religious educators to re-think their field, and proposes a new,
post-liberal model of religious education to help them do so. His
model both confronts prejudice and intolerance and also allows the
voices of different religions to be heard and critically explored.
While Education, Religion and Diversity is directed to a British
audience the issues it raises and the alternative it proposes are
important for those educators in the United States who believe that
the public schools have an important role in teaching students
about religion." Walter Feinberg, Professor Emeritus of Education
Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. "Philip Barnes offers a penetrating and lucid
analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of modern religious
education in Britain. He considers a range of epistemological and
methodological issues and identifies two contrasting models of
religious education that have been influential, what he calls a
liberal and a postmodern model. After a detailed review and
criticism of both, he outlines his own new post-liberal model of
religious education, one that is compatible with both confessional
and non-confessional forms of religious education, yet takes
religious diversity and religious truth claims seriously. Essential
reading for all religious educators and those concerned with the
role of religion in schools." Bernd Schroeder, Professor of
Practical Theology and Religious Education, University of
Goettingen. "What place, if any, does religious education have in
the schools of an increasingly diverse society? This lucid and
authoritative book makes an incisive contribution to this crucial
debate." Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy,
University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow, Ian Ramsey
Centre, Oxford. The challenge of diversity is central to education
in modern liberal, democratic states, and religious education is
often the point where these differences become both most acute and
where it is believed, of all curriculum subjects, resolutions are
most likely to be found. Education, Religion and Diversity
identifies and explores the commitments and convictions that have
guided post-confessional religious education and concludes
controversially that the subject as currently theorised and
practised is incapable of challenging religious intolerance and of
developing respectful relationships between people from different
communities and groups within society. It is argued that despite
the rhetoric of success, which religious education is obliged to
rehearse in order to perpetuate its status in the curriculum and to
ensure political support, a fundamentally new model of religious
education is required to meet the challenge of diversity to
education and to society. A new framework for religious education
is developed which offers the potential for the subject to make a
genuine contribution to the creation of a responsible, respectful
society. Education, Religion and Diversity is a wide-ranging,
provocative exploration of religious education in modern liberal
democracies. It is essential reading for those concerned with the
role of religion in education and for religious and theological
educators who want to think critically about the aims and character
of religious education.
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