Schooling Indifference : Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces Hardback
by John I'Anson, Alison Jasper
Part of the Gender, Theology and Spirituality series
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This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts. On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this educational framing is no longer plausible in the light of new theoretical developments within the academy.
A new educational approach to RE is outlined that challenges students to think and practice differently.
This includes a 'becoming ethnographer' approach that can acknowledge socio-material relations and engage the broader literacies necessary for such study. Part One examines how RE has been constructed as a discipline in historical and spatial terms that abstract its study from material concerns.
Part Two offers some new starting points: Spinoza, Foucault and feminist theory that differently foreground context and relationality, and 'Islam' read as a discursive, located tradition rather than as 'world view'.
Finally, Part Three proposes a new trajectory for research and practice in RE, with the aim of re-engaging schools, colleges and universities in a dialogue that promotes thinking and practice that - as educational - is continually in touch with the need to be critical, open-ended and ethically justifiable.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:190 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781138184695
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:190 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138184695