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Authors: Robert Jackson
ISBN-13: 9780415302715, ISBN-10: 0415302714
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Robert Jackson

Book Synopsis

This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education in order to devise approaches and formulate policies and procedures that are fair to all.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Religious education in the context of plurality4
2Religious and cultural heritage22
3State funding for religious schools?39
4Postmodernist approaches to religious education58
5Religious education as religious literacy75
6Interpretive approaches to religious education87
7Dialogical approaches to religious education109
8Religious education's contribution to intercultural education, citizenship education and values education126
9The relevance of research to religious education143
10Towards a pluralistic religious education161
Notes181
References190
Index214

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