Values, Human Rights and Religious Education

Contested Grounds

Jeff Astley, Leslie J. Francis, David W. Lankshear, Stephen Parker, Mandy Robbins, Rob Freathy, Leslie J. Francis

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781788745253
• eBook ISBN: 9781788745260
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

This volume brings together three key and contested areas facing educationalists within schools, colleges and universities: values education, religious education and human rights education. Challenges and opportunities within each of these three areas may be illuminated and explored by bringing them into creative dialogue.

These core constructs were explored in a recent seminar convened by the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, the leading international association for religious educators and values educators across the world. This volume presents twenty-one key contributions made to the seminar, spanning both conceptual and empirical perspectives and rooted in both religious and secular traditions. It draws together a unique collection of international perspectives on the interlocking themes of values, human rights and religious education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword (Julian Stern)
• Introduction (Jeff Astley)
• 1. Pursuing Racial Justice in the US: What Religious Educators Need to Learn from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (Mary E. Hess)
• 2. Values and Existential Understandings as Parts of Students’ Ethical Competence (Christina Osbeck)
• 3. The Contribution of Interreligious Initiatives to Human Rights Education (Johannes Lähnemann)
• 4. The Council of Europe, Human Rights, and Education about Religions and other Worldviews (Robert Jackson)
• 5. Values, Human Rights, and Religious Education: A Critical Analysis (L. Philip Barnes)
• 6. The Case for Dialogical Learning as a Signature Pedagogy of Religious Education (James Nelson)
• 7. The Development of Human Rights within Catholic Social Teaching (Peta Goldburg)
• 8. Values, Human Rights, and Catholic Religious Education (Mario O. D’souza CSB)
• 9. Human Rights Education and Religious Education: A Catholic Perspective (Bernhard Grümme)
• 10. The Impact of Human Rights Discourses on the Multifaith Space of South African Higher Education (Marilyn Naidoo)
• 11. Religious Education Between Theology and Religious Studies (Manfred L. Pirner)
• 12. Worldviews, Ethics, and Ecology: ‘Sustainability’ as a Context for Religious Education (Bruce Grelle)
• 13. Issues and Dilemmas in Human Rights and Religious Education: A Northern Ireland Perspective (Norman Richardson)
• 14. Young Students’ Memories and Reflections on the July 22, 2011 Terror Attacks in Norway (Kerstin Von Brömssen)
• 15. Human Rights Education in Religious Education: A Theological Perspective (Thomas Schlag)
• 16. A Social Theory Framework for Relating Human Rights and Religious Education (Manfred L. Pirner)
• 17. Human Dignity and Human Rights: A Plea for Their Place and Importance in Values Education (Karin Sporre)
• 18. An Islamic Worldview: A Worldview Framework Approach to Religion in a Modern, Secular, Democratic State (John Valk / Mualla Selçuk)
• 19. Spirituality and Humanistic Values among Graduates of State Modern-Orthodox, State Modern Ultra-Orthodox, and Traditional Ultra-Orthodox High Schools in Israel (Yaacov J. Katz)
• 20. Teaching Human Rights and Judaism: Are they Compatible? (Zehavit Gross)
• 21. Human Rights and Religious Education: Toward a Recovery of Humanism in Pedagogy (Hanan A. Alexander)
• Contributors
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects