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Tania ap Siôn; Sandra Cullen; Sonja Danner; Bianca Kappelhoff; Eszter Kodácsy-Simon – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Living and working through the challenges of a pandemic offered a unique research opportunity to engage with some core questions about what really matters in Religious Education (RE) in countries across Europe. The "What COVID Reveals to Religious Education Specialists" research project sought to provide a reflective space for RE…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
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Anna Franzén Johnson; Annika Lilja; Christina Osbeck – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
In this article, the aim is twofold: firstly, to explore, through a systematic literature review, what discourses on religion may be identified in previous research that focuses on students' perspectives, and secondly, to discuss this in relation to research concerning challenges and opportunities in Scandinavian religious education (RE) and…
Descriptors: Religion, Student Attitudes, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Riegel, Ulrich; Rothgangel, Martin – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
On the one hand, research on religious education is done according to a transnational scientific paradigm, on the other hand, it is performed within particular institutional contexts which vary from nation to nation.This raises the question of how institutional context affect research on religious education. The paper addresses this question on…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Environment, Cross Cultural Studies
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Kamel Essabane; Carl Sterkens; Paul Vermeer – Religious Education, 2023
This article discusses how Islamic religious education (IRE) can complement citizenship education by nurturing shared values and norms. The article first discusses the ideal of transformative citizenship in the context of Western liberal democracies as the dynamic interplay of four core dimensions: identity, legal status, participation, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Islam, Religious Education
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Selderslagh, Guy – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
In the long history of the Catholic school in Europe, it has taken various forms, linked to local cultures and to the history, particularly religious but also political, of each state. While it is possible to account for this diversity, it is also important to highlight common features and challenges, such as secularisation and globalisation,…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Wodon, Quentin – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
According to Church statistics, 6.9 million children were enrolled in Catholic primary and secondary schools in Europe. Enrolment has remained relatively stable over the last 40 years in comparison to other regions of the world, contributing to education pluralism. This may be in part because in many countries, Catholic and private schools benefit…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Religious Education
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Anastasia Badder – Journal of Jewish Education, 2024
Much research on part-time Jewish educational programs has focused on curricular content and pedagogy. Yet classrooms involve diverse exchanges about curricular subjects as well as those that appear little related to Jewish studies; both are motivated by assumptions about which things count as Jewish matters of concern and appropriate orientations…
Descriptors: Judaism, Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Ethnography
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Perry L. Glanzer – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
A recent global reconnaissance of Christian higher education found a number of key themes that shaped current developments, such as the pressing challenges of secularization and nationalization but also the advantages of privatization and massification. This article provides an update to this older analysis by taking a birds-eye view of trends…
Descriptors: Christianity, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Religious Education
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Pajer, Flavio – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
One of the major contributions of the Catholic school to the formation of people and to the mission of the Church is religious education. In the diversity of school systems in Europe, it is possible to identify three models: the politico-conciliar, the academic-curricular and the ethical-value-based. These models evolve in line with the religious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Institutional Mission
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Koukounaras Liagkis, Marios; Skordoulis, Michalis; Geronikou, Vasiliki – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
This paper aims to present research on measuring competences for democratic culture. It describes the development of a multiple-item scale that measures competences in teaching democratic citizenship and human rights through religious education. A principal component analysis based on the 135 items of the Council of Europe's Reference framework of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Democratic Values, Test Construction, Competence
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Zembylas, Michalinos – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper brings attention to the notion of 'religious affects', namely, the affects, emotions and feelings related to religion and religious experience. It is argued that educators and students have a lot to gain from paying attention to and exploring the meaning and role of religious feelings in the context of controversies and debates…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Factors, Islam, Social Attitudes
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Tröhler, Daniel – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
This article argues that crucial elements of the three most important theoretical models of twentieth-century education can be traced back to three Protestant denominations that were developed in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First, rather than to look in depth at the Protestant Reformers' own educational ideas, the paper…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Protestants, Governance, Educational Theories
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Alberts, Wanda – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2019
This article critically reviews the European religious education landscape and argues that a religious notion of religion prevails in most models, not only in confessional RE but also in integrative models and even in so-called alternative subjects that are compulsory for pupils who do not take part in confessional RE. Thus, schools in Europe…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Models, Teaching Methods
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Peter Kallaway – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
During the 1930s there was a significant shift in the debate about African colonial education. Above all, somewhat discreetly hidden behind the formal language of the educational documents, is the question of the challenge presented to the traditional literary/religious missionary curriculum, or even to the "adaptationist" debate about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Best Practices, Colonialism, Curriculum Development
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Everington, Judith – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Although the teaching of nonreligious worldviews has been advocated in a Council of Europe Recommendation, few European countries include such a study in religious education (RE). Guidance on implementing the Recommendation recognises that inclusion is problematic, raising issues for policymakers, teacher trainers and schools. In this article,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, World Views
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