Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe [electronic resource] : Children, Parents and Schools /
Smyth, Emer.author.
Lyons, Maureen.author.
Darmody, Merike.author.
Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Religion and Schooling: The European Context; 3 Religious Education in Primary Schools in Scotland: Consensus or Uneasy Truce?; 4 The Material and Symbolic Cultures of the Everyday: Religion in Maltese Primary Schools; 5 Children's Agency and Religious Identity in Irish Primary Schools; 6 Religion and Immigration: The Acculturation Attitudes of Muslim Primary School Children Attending Flemish Schools
7 Education as Negotiation: Discovering New Patterns of Religious Identity Formation in Germany8 Conclusions; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Religion and sociology.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Religion.
International and Comparative Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Religion.
Philosophy of Education.
Religious Studies, general.