Religious Education and Religious affiliated schools
The research activities focus on the religious dimension (or: value dimension) of educational processes. The research is conducted on students and teachers in the more restricted and concrete area of the subject of ‘Religious Education’ and in a broader sense by exploring the participants’ perception of the religious dimension of (mainly) religiously affiliated schools. Emphasis is put on the fact that (in Dutch society and in Western Europe) the context of education is a secularised society, which features a lot of social diversity (on the variables of ethnicity, faith traditions, culture, etc). The core question is how this diversity, which is inevitably reflected in daily schoollife, is perceived by the participants and how this influences contents and processes of RE. Most of the research will result in fundamental and conceptual studies and articles, from time to time combined with the results of qualitative-empirical research. Keywords: Religious Education, Value Education, Corporate Identity of Religiously Affiliated schools, Interreligious and Intercultural Learning, Socio-constructivist learning strategies in Religious Education and Teacher Education.
prof. dr. C. Bakker, Utrecht University (UU)
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