Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality - 9780415302715

Taylor & Francis

This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education, in order to devise approaches to teaching, and learning and to formulate policies and procedures that are fair and just to all. > \nHow should schools deal with religions in matters of curriculum, procedure and policy?\nAs Western society becomes increasingly multicultural in character, schools must reassess the provision of religious education and look at how they might adapt in order to accommodate students' diverse experiences of plurality. This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education, in order to devise approaches to teaching and learning, and to formulate policies and procedures that are fair and just to all. \nBeginning with a contextual overview of the religious, social and cultural changes of the past fifty years, the book goes on to illuminate and assess six different responses to the challengK