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Kimanen, Anuleena – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
When social justice education is conducted in religious education (RE) classes, it can take the forms of education about (concepts and facts), into (enhancing commitment), with (negotiating practices) and through (pupil-led action) social justice. The first three approaches were used in seven RE lessons observed in urban Finnish lower secondary…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Religious Education, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Lemettinen, Jenni; Hirvonen, Elina; Ubani, Martin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
In recent years, the concept of 'worldview' has resurfaced into the forefront of the international debate among scholars of religious education. With this study, we aim to contribute to the discussion with empirical material having a focus on worldview education in whole school education. The study deals with the Finnish teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Views, Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes
Lipiäinen, Tuuli; Ubani, Martin; Kallioniemi, Arto – Religious Education, 2022
This study examines the attitudes of teachers toward the visibility of worldviews in public education as well as how teachers negotiate the boundaries of acceptability based on these attitudes. The question raised several issues: on the one hand, the clashing of increasingly complex, diverse, and secularized worldviews and, on the other hand, the…
Descriptors: World Views, Teacher Attitudes, Public Education, Christianity
Lipiäinen, Tuuli; Ubani, Martin; Viinikka, Kaisa; Kallioniemi, Arto – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This article examines "new learning" skills from the perspective of Finnish in-service Religious Education (RE) teachers by exploring which skills teachers emphasize in their instruction. The data of this study consist of a quantitative online questionnaire (N = 83), and qualitative semi-structured interviews (N = 18) that were conducted…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries
Kimanen, Anuleena – Journal of Religious Education, 2022
In the field of education concerning cultural diversity it has been recognized as vital to address justice in social structures. Although justifications for religious education in non-confessional contexts are heavily based on religious diversity, their advocates have paid little attention to justice and power relations. In this article, I analyse…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Empathy, Religious Education, Secondary School Students
Viinikka, Kaisa; Ubani, Martin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
This article studies three RE (religious education) student teachers' perceptions about their professional development from the beginning to the end of their initial teacher education. The focus of study was to investigate via an inductive content analysis if there are the same kind of phases in RE teacher education and how those phases are in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education
Åhs, Vesa; Poulter, Saila; Kallioniemi, Arto – Journal of Religious Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to explore pupil perspectives on religions and worldviews in a mutual integrative space of religious and worldview education in a Finnish context. Analysing group interview data (N = 38) gathered from lower secondary school pupils attending mutual classes of religious and worldview education, the article explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Views, Religion, Student Attitudes
Khalili, Samaneh; Kallioniemi, Arto; Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This article aims to identify and compare the characteristics of human agency in liberal and Islamic religious education, comparing Iran as a religious context influenced by Islamic state ideology with Finland as a liberal context and a secular state ideology. This comparison will be accomplished by document analysis of the national curricula for…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Comparative Education, Religious Education, Islamic Culture
Kavonius, Marjaana; Ubani, Martin – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of religious education and ethics instruction in the development of worldviews in public education using empirical data. The research question of the article is: How is the contribution of RE and Ethics in the development of worldviews perceived among 9th grade students? The study is based on…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Ethics, World Views, Role of Education
Salmenkivi, Eero; Kasa, Tuija; Putkonen, Niina; Kallioniemi, Arto – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
In this article we examine the profiling of human rights and children's rights in religious education (RE) and its secular alternative in Finland. We use the term 'worldview education' to describe the combination of these subjects. We analyse what kinds of human rights and ethical issues are raised in Finnish worldview education. One specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Childrens Rights, Religious Education
Metso, Pekka – Journal of Religious Education, 2019
The focus of this article is on parents' experiences with and perceptions of their children's religious education (RE). The data consist of letters from 41 parents of Finnish Orthodox children and youth. In the letters, the parents describe their understanding of minority religious upbringing and how it is affected by different factors like RE. RE…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Religious Education, Letters (Correspondence), Minority Groups
Lipiäinen, Tuuli; Jantunen, Anita; Kallioniemi, Arto – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of worldviews Finnish principals identify in their schools and the kind of lived realities of worldviews that are affecting schools from the perspective of school leadership. The issues were considered using a wide worldview framework, which includes religious and non-religious worldviews and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, World Views, Instructional Leadership
Rissanen, Inkeri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study examines negotiations on Muslims' inclusive citizenship in Finnish and Swedish comprehensive schools. The data include interviews with Muslim parents and Muslim teachers (n = 8 in both countries), who serve as cultural brokers in public schools and mediate negotiations on the terms of inclusion. The study utilizes the notion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Citizenship, Public Schools
Viinikka, Kaisa; Ubani, Martin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
This study examines what kind of expectations religious education (RE) student teachers have about their professional development during their academic studies. The study focuses on eight RE student teachers in teacher education in Finland. The students were studied in light of the twenty-first-century skills framework. The analysis was deductive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expectation, Student Teacher Attitudes, 21st Century Skills
Rissanen, Inkeri; Sai, Youcef – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
Based on classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers, parents and students, this comparative study looks at how social cohesion is promoted in Islamic Religious Education (IRE) lessons in Muslim schools in Ireland and non-faith schools in Finland. The study analyses teaching in the following areas: intra-religious cohesion;…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Islam, Social Integration, Teacher Attitudes