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Jackson, Robert (2016) A retrospective introduction to Religious Education : an interpretive approach. Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 7 (1). pp. 149-160. doi:10.1515/dcse-2016-0011 ISSN 2255-7547.
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Abstract
The author takes a retrospective look at his book Religious Education: An Interpretive Approach, first published in 1997, and now available to readers, open access, via the European Wergeland Centre website (http://www.theewc.org/Content/Library/Research-Development/Literature/Introducing-Religious-Education-an-Interpretive-Approach). He tells a personal story of teaching, broadcasting and research, moving from the design of a methodology for studying the religions of minority groups in Britain to identifying the main concepts used for teaching about religions to children and young people in an engaging way, which relates to their own personal and social experience. The article, explains the key concept of representation – looking, for example, at how religions are often represented in ways that play down their internal diversity. Next the concept of interpretation is considered, emphasising the activity through which learners can compare and contrast the use of language by religious believers with their own nearest equivalent language uses, in trying, with sensitivity, to get as close as possible to their meanings. Finally, the process of reflexivity is explained; this gives learners an opportunity for three activities – to re-assess their understanding of their own world view (called edification in the interpretive approach), to make a distanced critique of beliefs and ideas they have studied, and to evaluate the methods that they have been using to learn about the religious meanings of others. Finally the author illustrates how the key concepts from the interpretive approach have been adapted for use in field research studies on teaching and learning about religions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Religious education | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education | ||||
Publisher: | De Gruyter | ||||
ISSN: | 2255-7547 | ||||
Official Date: | 8 June 2016 | ||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 149-160 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1515/dcse-2016-0011 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 July 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 July 2016 |
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