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Quantified Secularism? Counting Religious Conflicts in French State Schools since the 1980s
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Ferhat, Ismail – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Religious matters have traditionally been considered as a sensitive subject in French state schools. Since 1989 and the first 'Muslim headscarf affair', faith-related conflicts in those institutions have been the subject of a relatively opaque counting policy. Mobilising several state institutions- which alternatively cooperate or compete- this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Schools, Conflict, Religious Education
Religious Education in French Private Schools: Categories, Conflations, and Inequities
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Ferrara, Carol – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
France's secular political culture, Catholic heritage, and tumultuous relationship with Islam have had a significant impact on 21st-century interpretations, perceptions, and politicisations of religious education in French society. Since religious education is relegated to the French private school system, it is decentralised, complex, and vastly…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Islam
Transmitting Faith in the Republic: Muslim Schooling in Modern Plural France
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Ferrara, Carol A. – Religious Education, 2018
This article explores and analyzes private Muslim schooling in France using ethnographic research performed in 2013-2014 in Lille-, Lyon-, and Paris-based Muslim schools. The article discusses the course content and the interpretations of Islam that are taught, demonstrating how French republican values are fused together with Islam to promote a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Course Content, Islam
Interreligious Education and the Contemporary School: Contexts, Challenges and Theologies: An Irish Perspective
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Coll, Niall – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2019
A strong current in contemporary Catholic thought -- the theology of interreligious or interfaith dialogue -- stresses the importance of dialogue and collaboration with followers of other world faiths. This article proposes that religious education in Catholic schools, particularly at post-primary level, needs to engage more with this theological…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Intergroup Relations, Dialogs (Language)
Telecollaboration and Virtual Exchange across Disciplines: In Service of Social Inclusion and Global Citizenship
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Turula, Anna, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; Lewis, Tim, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This collection of short papers is an outcome of the third conference on virtual exchange in higher education hosted by the Pedagogical University in Krakow in April 2018. Following the focus of the conference on virtual exchange in service of social inclusion and global citizenship, the papers collected in this volume offer first-hand insights…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Inclusion, Telecommunications, International Educational Exchange
Religious Tolerance and Understanding in the French Education System
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Ferrara, Carol – Religious Education, 2012
This research is based on an interview and survey-based case study of an Islamic "lycee", a Catholic "lycee", and two public "lycees" in the Ile-de-France region of France. The study investigated whether students in private schools receiving some form of education about religion tend to be more tolerant and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Private Schools, Teaching Methods