Authors: Liam Gearon, Gearon Liam
ISBN-13: 9780415298124, ISBN-10: 0415298121
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Religion has achieved ever greater prominence in debates about citizenship at every level of cultural, economic, social and political life. Citizenship through Secondary Religious Education highlights some of the key issues surrounding citizenship for the R.E. teacher.
Topics selected include those of historical and immediate relevance to teaching citizenship through religious education. There are chapters covering general critical planning issues and those concentrating on specific themes such as:
Practical in its style, the guidance presented in this book will be invaluable to teachers and student teachers of religious education and specialists in citizenship. Those who have been allocated responsibility for teaching Citizenship or Religious Education, or are looking to teach them as second subjects, will also find this book a useful resource.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: The City of God: citizenship through religious education | 1 | |
Pt. I | Citizenship and religious education: critical contexts and planning issues | 5 |
1 | The Open Society and Its Enemies: citizenship and religious education | 7 |
2 | The politics of hell on earth: human rights and religious education | 31 |
3 | Planning for citizenship through religious education | 51 |
Pt. II | Citizenship through religious education: rights, wrongs and responsibilities | 77 |
4 | Genocide through religious education | 79 |
5 | Asylum through religious education | 91 |
6 | Slavery through religious education | 105 |
7 | Freedom of expression through religious education | 115 |
8 | Freedom of religion and belief through religious education | 127 |
9 | Economic rights, environmental responsibilities: sustainable development through religious education | 139 |
10 | Women's rights through religious education | 153 |
11 | The rights of indigenous peoples through religious education | 165 |
References | 177 | |
Index | 185 |