TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging with religious epistemologies in the classroom
T2 - Implications for civic education
AU - Bekerman, Zvi
AU - Zembylas, Michalinos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Our point of departure in this paper is the observation that in many secular societies—which may be so in variable degrees, especially in the West—as well as in societies emerging out of religious conflict, there may be the perception that educational systems ought to promote civic values while sidestepping religious or cultural values. This entanglement, in our view, presents a challenge that is deeply political, because effective participation in a society is directly relevant to ideals about equity, social justice, power relations, and the common good. We suggest that when religious and cultural affiliations are excluded from such ideals, this makes effective participation more possible or perhaps less so, especially for certain social groups such as minority and marginalized groups or groups that have been victimized in a conflict situations.
AB - Our point of departure in this paper is the observation that in many secular societies—which may be so in variable degrees, especially in the West—as well as in societies emerging out of religious conflict, there may be the perception that educational systems ought to promote civic values while sidestepping religious or cultural values. This entanglement, in our view, presents a challenge that is deeply political, because effective participation in a society is directly relevant to ideals about equity, social justice, power relations, and the common good. We suggest that when religious and cultural affiliations are excluded from such ideals, this makes effective participation more possible or perhaps less so, especially for certain social groups such as minority and marginalized groups or groups that have been victimized in a conflict situations.
KW - civic education
KW - conflict
KW - minorities
KW - religious education
KW - Western epistemology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018760244&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1745499917698311
DO - 10.1177/1745499917698311
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AN - SCOPUS:85018760244
SN - 1745-4999
VL - 12
SP - 127
EP - 139
JO - Research in Comparative and International Education
JF - Research in Comparative and International Education
IS - 1
ER -