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The Challenge of Religious Education to Deal with Past and Present Catholicism
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Elshof, Toke – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Religious education (RE) in secondary schools in the Netherlands is challenged to redefine the educational aims. Concerning this debate, the preference for a cognitive approach is remarkably dominant, not only among scholars but among RE teachers as well. This appeal for a cognitive turn is based upon two hypotheses: first on the presumption of…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Secondary Education, Catholics, Foreign Countries
Religious Education in the Secularised Netherlands
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van Dijk-Groeneboer, Monique C. H. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2017
Being a religious educator in Western Europe, especially in the highly secularised Netherlands, is a complicated job. There are concepts to be taught to a generation that is mostly religiously analphabetic. Religion is subject to many discussions that foremost include the media's coverage of extremist versions of religion. It has become more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Religion, Student Diversity
Learning for Life: A Hermeneutical--Communicative Model for Worldview Education in Light of White Normativity
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Mulder, André; van den Berg, Bas – Religious Education, 2019
In the project "Learning for Life" we developed a hermeneutical--communicative model for worldview education that answers the European challenges of worldview diversity and worldview illiteracy. We implemented the model in a participatory action research project at nine schools for primary education in the Netherlands and monitored the…
Descriptors: Whites, World Views, Hermeneutics, Action Research
Students' Perceptions and Teachers' Self-Ratings of Modelling Civic Virtues: An Exploratory Empirical Study in Dutch Primary Schools
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Willems, Frank; Denessen, Eddie; Hermans, Chris; Vermeer, Paul – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
This is a study of teachers' modelling of civic virtues in the classroom. It focusses on three virtues of good citizenship: justice, tolerance and solidarity. The aim is to explore the extent to which teachers can be regarded as models of these virtues. Questionnaires were developed for both students and teachers. Factor analyses showed that the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries