Religious Education and Social and Community Cohesion: An Exploration of Challenges and Opportunities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0855977108 ISBN 13: 9780855977108

Publisher: McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

For his final book in a long and influential career in RE, Michael Grimmitt has commissioned fourteen chapters from distinguished educators and religious educators which address questions such as: - 'Does knowing about religion encourage pupils to have positive attitudes towards diversity?' - 'Do faith schools help or hinder community cohesion?' - 'Should RE be more closely related to citizenship?' - 'What contribution can schooling make to the creation of a just and equitable society?' - 'Does RE relativise and domesticate religious traditions by imposing an alien and securalist structure upon them in order to study them?' In an introduction and in an extended end piece, Michael Grimmitt also provides a personal commentary on how during his career several stages in the metamorphisis of the subject have occurred with a new stage now emerging in response to the changed circumstances of globalised and politicised religion. 'Religious Education & Community Cohesion' will quickly become essential reading for anyone with a professional interest and engagement in RE. Like its predecessor 'Pedagogies of Religious Education', it will prove invaluable as a text for student teachers following a PGCE course in RE, a source for reference for teachers undertaking research and research degrees in the subject, and, more widely, for all those who support the development of RE in their faith communities and through their membership of local SACREs. Hopefully it will provide an agenda for RE into the new decade. List of Contributors: - Professor Vivienne Baumfield - Professor Clyde Chitty - Professor Terence Copley - Professor Liam Gearon - Dr Marius Felderhof - Dr Michael Grimmitt - Dr Joyce Miller - Professor Audrey Osler - Professor Richard Pring - Norman Richardson - Dr John Rudge - Dr Abdullah Sahin - Dr Matthew Thompson - Professor Geoffrey Walford - Simon Whitehouse - Professor Andrew Wright

About this edition

• Publisher: McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0855977108
• ISBN 13: 9780855977108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336