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Worldview Literacy in the Academy and Beyond: Advancing Mutual Understanding in Diverse Societies
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Valk, John; Selçuk, Mualla; Miedema, Siebren – Religious Education, 2020
Diverse societies face increasing racial tension, social divide, religious illiteracy, and secularism. What role can education play in confronting these challenges? Universities generate scientific knowledge but less so the search for meaning. Worldview studies encompasses both views of life and ways of life. Exploring various worldviews becomes a…
Descriptors: World Views, Role of Education, Teaching Methods, Religious Education
"Worldview": The Meaning of the Concept and the Impact on Religious Education
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van der Kooij, Jacomijn C.; de Ruyter, Doret J.; Miedema, Siebren – Religious Education, 2013
The article analyzes the concept of "worldview" in religious education. A distinction is introduced between organized worldviews, more or less established systems with a group of believers, and personal worldviews, individuals' views on life and humanity. The focus of the first section is on presenting a more precise description of these concepts…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Reflection, World Views, Religious Education
In the Flow to Maximal Interreligious Citizenship Education
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Miedema, Siebren; ter Avest, Ina – Religious Education, 2011
In the secular age religious education and citizenship education could and should be fruitfully combined. That is the present authors' view on current developments in schools aiming at the strengthening and the flourishing of students' personal religious identity. Presupposition is that religious identity needs to be interpreted as an integral…
Descriptors: World Views, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Pupils' Religious Identity Formation for a Secular Age
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Miedema, Siebren – Religious Education, 2010
Starting his work as endowed Hendrik Pierson Professor for Christian Education at VU University Amsterdam in 1993 the author focused on the relationship of education, pedagogy, and religion. However, his attention was rather exclusively directed to Protestant schools. The argument was that in academia at that time, even in the faculties of…
Descriptors: Protestants, Church Programs, Identification (Psychology), Philosophy
Different Schools as Narrative Communities: Identity Narratives in Threefold
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ter Avest, Ina; Bakker, Cok; Miedema, Siebren – Religious Education, 2008
The last decade identity is often and very fruitfully conceptualized as "narrative identity." Neither for individuals nor for groups is identity a given beforehand anymore. On the contrary, identity has to be constructed in an inductive way continuously. Three qualitative research methods are applied to explore in an inductive way the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Autobiographies
Religious Identity Development of Adolescents in Religious Affiliated Schools. A Theoretical Foundation for Empirical Research
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Bertram-Troost, Gerdien D.; de Roos, Simone; Miedema, Siebren – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
The question, how religious affiliated schools for secondary education shape religious education and what effects this education has on the religious identity development of pupils, is relevant in a time when the position of religious affiliated schools is highly disputable. In earlier empirical research on religious identity development of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Identification (Psychology), Religious Education, Religion