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Francis Jonbäck; Carl-Johan Palmqvist – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
In order to include all outlooks and perspectives on the world prevalent in contemporary society, countries like Sweden have replaced traditional religious education with worldview education. However, current worldview theory fails to make justice to two important facts concerning the contemporary religious landscape. Firstly, a great many people…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Beliefs, World Views, Foreign Countries
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Franck, Olof – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
This article discusses whether there is a contradiction in prescribing a religious, more specifically a Christian, tradition as the ethical basis for a teaching that is prescribed to be non-denominational. In the Swedish curriculum, the ethics borne by a Christian tradition and Western humanism are used as a platform for the school's teaching at…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Ethics, Foreign Countries
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Christina Osbeck; Katarina Kärnebro; Annika Lilja; Karin Sporre – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine patterns in Swedish children's existential questions and worldviews in 2020 in relation to patterns from 1970 and 1987, but also to point towards a further discussion of importance, about possible RE responses to these findings. The material, children's texts, comes both from studies conducted by Sven Hartman…
Descriptors: World Views, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Childrens Attitudes
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Sara Mazzei – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2024
In the last decade, Europe has welcomed numerous migrants and refugees from Arab countries. The presence of these migrants and refugees in schools has posed the challenge of unfamiliar realities for teaching staff. The issue has been addressed from the perspectives of sociology to psychology, providing insights into the nature of intercultural…
Descriptors: Arabic, Arabs, Humanities, College Students
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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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Biström, Elin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Sexuality constitutes an important aspect of sustainable development as the concept is used by the United Nations. Education is commonly viewed as crucial to achieving sustainability, and promoting action competence is a key element in such educational efforts. This suggests that education should support individuals in actively seeking information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Secondary Education, Textbooks
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Lilja, Annika; Franck, Olof; Osbeck, Christina; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lyngfelt, Anna – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers' insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Klintborg, Caroline – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2022
In Sweden and in other parts of Europe, the nature of religious education (RE) and its place in schools is the subject of ongoing discussions. Concepts used in the RE classroom can either open or close classroom conversations. A growing consensus can be observed among researchers that the concept of 'religion' is not sufficient to describe -- and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Group Discussion
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Lindström, Niclas; Samuelsson, Lars – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Teachers in the non-confessional Swedish subject religious education have conflicting responsibilities to convey values and facilitate critical thinking. The research regarding these responsibilities has often been considered a theoretical problem and the discussion has concerned theoretical solutions. However, the problem is not only theoretical.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Moral Development, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Lindström, Niclas; Samuelsson, Lars – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
In recent research on moral psychology, the human consciousness has been compared to a tongue, with different taste buds, which together can cause a variety of sensations. According to this theory, people in general have a preparedness to react to situations, which can provide opportunities or pose threats in a social context. Moral psychologist,…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Religious Education, Experienced Teachers
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Sporre, Karin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Do curricular texts address children's existential questions and how are such questions to be met in school? This is the crucial question of this study. It consists of a comparative content analysis of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish national curricula for religious education, in use in 2019. To provide a background to this content analysis the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education, National Curriculum
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Sporre, Karin – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
In which ways do curricula recognize existential questions of compulsory school students, and what direction is given regarding how to address them? By asking these two questions, this study analyses syllabi for the school subject of religion education and its equivalents in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and in the two German regions of Bavaria and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries
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Mette Buchardt; Katarina Kärnebro – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
During the twentieth century, an increasing amount of data was collected in connection with engineering of the modern states including their education systems. In the Nordic welfare states post WW2, such data were also generated in experimental projects aiming at reforming curriculum and education, and the data were accumulated either as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Social Systems, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
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Lyngfelt, Anna; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lilja, Annika; Osbeck, Christina; Franck, Olof – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The overarching aim is to explore what teachers perceive as the opportunities provided by using literature in ethics education in compulsory school. When being interviewed, in what ways do the teachers express views on the potential of fiction to encourage students to accept certain human conditions as imaginable, or to create motivation for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Fiction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Broberg, Maximilian – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
Recent studies show that religious education (RE) and various media outlets serve as increasingly important arenas for religious socialisation among Swedish youths. At the same time, it has been shown that media material, for example in the form of various news media, often make their way into RE classrooms to be used as materials alongside the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Religious Education, News Media, Instructional Materials
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