Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional schoolsubject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the "world's most secular country" To do this, it analyses discourses of religion as they occur in the clas...

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Main Author Kittelmann Flensner, Karin (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319609492
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-60949-2
Physical DescriptionIX, 182 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1. Framing of the Issue
  • Chapter2. The religious Landscape
  • Chapter3. Perspectives on School Subjects
  • Chapter4. Different Models of Religious Education
  • Chapter5. From Fostering Into Christianity Into Critical Analysis of Religion in Society - The Development of RE in Sweden
  • Chapter6. Classroom Research of RE
  • Chapter7. Methodological and theoretical Approaches
  • Chapter8. I am Neutral! a Secualrist Discourse
  • Chapter9. "We are Stardust..." A Spiritual Discourse
  • Chapter10. "In Sweden We are Christian" - A Swedishness Discourse
  • Chapter11. Concluding Discussion.