scholarly journals Religious Symbols in Public Schools as Teachable Controversies in Religious Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Christian Moe
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
And Migration

This focus issue of CEPS Journal raises two topics usually treated separately, Religious Education and the use of religious symbols in public schools. Both involve the challenge of applying liberal democratic principles of secularism and pluralism in a school setting and refract policies on religion under conditions of globalisation, modernisation and migration. I take this situation as a teachable moment and argue that it illustrates the potential of a particular kind of Religious Education, based on the scientific Study of Religion, for making sense of current debates in Europe, including the debate on religious education itself. However, this requires maintaining a spirit of free, unbiased comparative enquiry that may clash with political attempts to instrumentalise the subject as a means of integrating minority students into a value system.

scholarly journals Islamic Religious Education in Contemporary Austrian Society: Muslim Teachers Dealing with Controversial Contemporary Topics

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Mehmet H. Tuna
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Austrian Society ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject

Muslims in Austria have, since 1982/83, had the unique privilege of providing Islamic religious education in secular public schools, including primary, middle and secondary schools. As well as opportunities, this privilege brings responsibilities and challenges to the Muslim community. Since its beginnings, Islamic religious education in Austria has, among other things, been especially characterized by the heterogeneity and diversity of its participants, as well as the general diversity in society and the secular context of public schools. In this context, theoretical discussions about the orientation of and justification for Islamic religious education in secular public schools suggest that for both teachers and the subject itself, an awareness, appreciation and inclusion of diversity, dialogue, multi-perspectivity and reflexivity is required. The empirical study on the professionalization of Islamic religious education, drawn on in this article, is based on Muslim teachers’ own perspectives and experiences. The research findings of that study show how Muslims become Islamic religious education teachers, how Muslim teachers see their roles in secular public schools, how they teach and approach Islam or Islamic topics, what the challenges of teaching Islamic education in public schools are, and other related topics. This article (re-)analyzes used and unused data from the study and focuses on how diversity and controversial topics can be approached in the context of Islamic religious education.

Religious Culture Dalam Pengembangan Kurikulum PAI

AKADEMIKA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-289
Author(s):  
Nur Iftitahul Husniyah
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Practical Level

At a practical level, the atmosphere of religious culture could be established through activities that encourage cultural diversity in the school / madrassa, among others: firstly, conducting routine activities, namely the development of cultural diversity regularly taking place in the days of learning at school; secondly, creating a conducive school environment that becomes a laboratory for the delivery of religious education, so that the environment and the process of life for the students really can provide education about how to be religious; thirdly, not only is the Islamic religious education formally presented by teachers of religion with the subject matter of religion in a learning process, but it can also be done outside the learning process in their daily lives; fourthly, creating religious situations or circumstances; fifthly, allowing students to express themselves, develop their talents, interests and creativity of Islamic religious education in various skills and arts. Sixthly, organizing various religious competitions. Fostering cultural diversity in schools / madrassa that should be taken into acount is that the phenomenon of the praxis of worship and prayers conducted in an educational environment instead of being solely conducted ritually. The issue of moral destruction can not be solved by simply praying or just reading the scriptures. In addition, religious education in public schools in particular is in need of attitudes and perspectives of teachers to be open, inclusive, and capable of promoting dialogue and mutual understanding amid cultural and religous diversity in the school environment. For the writer, the Islamic religious education is an education that teaches universally good values and can be received by the plurality of community in the school environment.

scholarly journals NILAI EDUKASI DALAM NOVEL PARTIKEL KARYA DEWI LESTARI (The Value of Education in Particle Novels by Dewi Lestari)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uniqbu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
A Value ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Ways Of Life

The purpose of this study was to identify the educational value of the novel Partikel by Dewi Lestari. This type of research is descriptive qualitative with a dynamic structuralism approach. The method used in this research is the observation method with the note-taking technique. The data was collected by classifying and describing the elements of literary works that were the subject of the study which emphasized the values that exist in the novel Partikel. The data source is the novel Partikel by Dewi Lestari, while the research data is sentences, phrases, and words that contain an educational value. The results showed that the educational value contained in the novel Partikel by Dewi Lestari is 1) the value of religious education; 2) the value of moral education; 3) social education value is a value that teaches people to be better towards themselves, other people, animals, and nature. The educational value contained in the novel Partikel by Dewi Lestari includes attitudes and ways of life of a person such as being loyal to friends, tolerance, determination, helping and preserving animals and nature; 4) the value of cultural education.

scholarly journals Religious Symbols in Public Schools: Key Issues and Debates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Aleš Črnič ◽  
Anja Pogačnik
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Key Issues

When discussing Religious Education, the topic of religious symbols in educational spaces is largely overlooked in academic literature and often side-lined in political considerations as well. This paper examines the issue of religious symbols in public schools by highlighting two foci: how the Muslim veil is managed in public schools in select European countries and zooming in on specific suggestions for managing religious symbols in public schools in Slovenia. By combining a broader, comparative perspective with practical, small-scale policy suggestions, the paper highlights the need to include a discussion of religious symbols in public schools in our academic and political considerations of religion and education.

Religious education in Romania

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavinia Stan ◽  
Lucian Turcescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Catholic Religion

This article provides an overview of the Romanian post-communist legislation on religious education in public schools, examined against the background of the 1991 Constitution and international provisions protecting freedom of conscience, critically assesses the pre-university textbooks used in Orthodox and Roman Catholic religion courses, and discusses the churches attempts to ban evolutionary theory from schools and the efforts of the Orthodox Church to introduce religious symbols in public universities.

scholarly journals On the religious subject "Ethics of Faith" in Public Schools and the Consolidation of Christian Churches in Ukraine

2005 ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Oleh Kyselov
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Religious Subject ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Academic Year

The problem of religious education is not new to Ukrainian religious studies. The latter was raised in connection with the decree of the Minister of Education and Science on the introduction of the subject "Theology" in higher educational establishments of Ukraine. However, as is often the case in Ukraine, the decree remained only on paper. At the same time, the topic of religious education was discussed in various circles in the circles of religious scholars. Now they are discussing this again. And these discussions are of a different nature, since the desire of the President without serious public discussion was started by the Ministry of Education and Science: since September 1 this academic year the course "Ethics of Faith" has already been introduced in some public schools in Ukraine. Discussions and controversies are already heard in parallel with the decision made and can actually change only the content of the subject, but not the decision on its teaching. That is, it is still debatable that children should be taught in public schools, but the fact that if a new subject does not appear on September 1, there will be almost no doubt after the new year.

scholarly journals Desain Pengembangan Kurikulum Pendidikan Agama Islam

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Mahrus Mahrus
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Teacher Resources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
Religious Material

Design can be formulated as a deliberate process of thinking, planning and selecting the parts, techniques, and procedures that set a goal. Challenges to Islamic religious education include a moral crisis and a personality crisis. Therefore, Islamic religious education is required to be able to equip students with the moral, personality, quality and maturity of life to live a multi-cultural nation life, which is currently hit by an economic crisis in order to livepeacefully in the world community.In an effort to develop an Islamic education curriculum to overcome various challenges and problems, it is necessary to pay attention to several aspects including strategies, methods, materials, Islamic religious teacher resources, facilities, teaching media and supporting instruments.Taking into account the demands of the globalization era of Islamic religious education in madrasas and public schools, it is necessary to implement several strategies, including: First, perfecting the religious education curriculum so that the subject matter reaches a proportional and functional composition but does not burden students. Second, combining religious material with character education materials such as PPKn or other related subjects can also erode thedichotomy of knowledge. Third, creating a religious condition in the school environment

Citizenship, identity and belonging

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Carol Vincent
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Vast Literature ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Citizenship Identity

Chapter 2 is split into three main parts. The first part discusses an approach to citizenship that stresses affect, and then moves on to explore some of the vast literature around citizenship and nationalism, focusing on what Conversi refers to as the ‘deliberate cultivation of common [national] allegiances’ (2014 p.28) and the role of universal democratic principles in so doing. I draw attention to the arguments of several commentators that asserting a national identity through commitment to apparently universal liberal democratic principles often obscures the existence of narrower cultural and ethnic understandings of belonging. Second, Chapter 2 considers the role of citizenship education in promoting national and global belonging, and identifies some of the recent developments in the subject. Third, it discusses these recent developments in England and elsewhere, including the entanglement with counter-extremist policies.

scholarly journals School activities in health education and their impact on parents

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 615-623
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Cirino Ruocco ◽  
Newton Goulart Madeira
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Health Education ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Head Lice ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject

There is little empirical evidence establishing the value of schoolhouse education of children and the repercussions on their families; a quantitative analysis of instructional intervention in health and its reflection on the family permits quantification of its effectiveness outside of the school setting. To this end, we utilized instruction on head lice in schoolchildren was conducted. A randomized sample of those responsible for students enrolled from the third to fifth grade, from two public schools who had taken an instructional module on pediculosis, were invited to respond to a questionnaire that aimed to ascertain their opinions on the instruction and what its impact was on their family. The variables were assessed by univariat analysis.  Of 155 total respondents, 89.9% were the parents of the students. The students that had infestation, in turn, had greater capacity to influence the family on measures against lice. The majority of those responsible supported the instruction and reported being satisfied with the school for having addressed the theme. When the subject pertains to the reality of the students, the school-family link is strengthened. Instruction on pediculosis in school helps bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical, a harmonization required in health education.

The Speech-Language Pathologist in the Public Schools: Preparation for Real Life Practices From the Perspective of a Speech-Language Pathology Program Coordinator

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Francine Wenhardt
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Program Coordinator ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Language Pathology

Abstract The speech-language pathologist (SLP) working in the public schools has a wide variety of tasks. Educational preparation is not all that is needed to be an effective school-based SLP. As a SLP currently working in the capacity of a program coordinator, the author describes the skills required to fulfill the job requirements and responsibilities of the SLP in the school setting and advises the new graduate regarding the interview process and beginning a career in the public schools.

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