Signposts : policy and practice for teaching about religions and non-religious world views in intercultural education.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Council of Europe.

Contributor:

Council of Europe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--Europe.

Multicultural education.

Religious pluralism--Europe.

Religious pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Strasbourg, France : Council of Europe Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can the study of religions and non-religious world views contribute to intercultural education in schools in Europe? An important recommendation from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)12 on the dimension of religions and non-religious convictions within intercultural education) aimed to explain the nature and objectives of this form of education.Signposts goes much further by providing advice to policy makers, schools (including teachers, senior managers and governors) and teacher trainers on tackling issues arising from the recommendation. Taking careful account of feedback from education officials, teachers and teacher trainers in Council of Europe member states, Signposts gives advice, for example, on clarifying the terms used in this form of education; developing competences for teaching and learning, and working with different didactical approaches; creating "safe space" for moderated student-to-student dialogue in the classroom; helping students to analyse media representations of religions; discussing non-religious world views alongside religious perspectives; handling human rights issues relating to religion and belief; and linking schools (including schools of different types) to one another and to wider communities and organisations. Signposts is not a curriculum or a policy statement. It aims to give policy makers, schools and teacher trainers in the Council of Europe member states, as well as others who wish to use it, the tools to work through the issues arising from interpretation of the recommendation to meet the needs of individual countries.Signposts results from the work of an international panel of experts convened jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre, and is written on the group's behalf by Professor Robert Jackson.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 The recommendation: background, issues and challenges

Chapter 2 Introducing Signposts and its key themes

Chapter 3 Terminology associated with teaching about religions and beliefs

Chapter 4 Competence and didactics for understanding religions

Chapter 5 The classroom as a safe space

Chapter 6 The representation of religions in the media

Chapter 7 Non-religious convictions and world views

Chapter 8 Human rights issues

Chapter 9 Linking schools to wider communities and organisations

Chapter 10 Promoting further discussion and action

References

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789287180063

9287180067

9789287179661

9287179662

OCLC:

900687777