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Religious Education as Small 'i' Indoctrination: How European Countries Struggle with a Secular Approach to Religion in Schools
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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
The Rhetoric and Reality of Human Rights Education: Policy Frameworks and Teacher Perspectives
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Osler, Audrey; Skarra, Jon Arne – Multicultural Education Review, 2021
A multicultural society that equates Christian and humanist values with human rights denies pluralism, placing human rights culture at risk. We examine Norwegian education policy discourses, noting human rights as a key feature of national identity, said to underpin schooling. Education policy maintains distinctions between those who embody…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, Guidelines, Christianity
Impartial Teachers in Religious Education--A Perspective from a Norwegian Context
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Skeie, Geir – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
The debate about Norwegian religious education, since the change towards a more multi-faith and non-confessional school subject in 1997, has often touched upon issues of impartiality, using concepts such as neutral, objective, descriptive, critical and pluralistic. Still, international Human Rights bodies have criticised Norwegian regulations for…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Organizations (Groups)
A Values Base for the Norwegian Kindergarten: Common Ground across Cultural Affiliations?
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Hovdelien, Olav – Journal of Moral Education, 2013
One of the major challenges facing modern-day secular states is the issue of social integration. The issue discussed in this article is how it is possible to arrive at unifying values in a multicultural society that is characterised by secularisation and disintegration of the Christian hegemony of former times on the one hand and by the emergence…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Civil Rights, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
The Norwegian "Christianity, Religion and Philosophy" Subject "KRL" in Strasbourg
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Lied, Sidsel – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
This article presents the judgement and dissent of the European Court of Human Rights in the "Case of Folgero and others v. Norway" regarding the subject "Christianity, Religion and Philosophy (KRL)" in Norwegian state schools. The verdict, reached with dissenting votes of 9-8, states that parents' freedom of ensuring their…
Descriptors: State Schools, Christianity, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights
Compulsory Education in Religion--The Norwegian Case: An Empirical Evaluation of RE in Norwegian Schools, with a Focus on Human Rights
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Hagesaether, Gunhild; Sandsmark, Signe – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
Christian knowledge used to be taught in the Norwegian state school as a compulsory subject for members of Lutheran churches. In 1997 this was replaced by a subject that is compulsory for all pupils, where both Christianity, other religions and secular world views are taught on an equal basis, although more time should be used on Christianity than…
Descriptors: State Schools, Parent Rights, World Views, Compulsory Education