Learning for Life
Subtitle: An Imaginative Approach to Worldview Education in the Context of Diversity
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: Mar 08, 2019
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Format: hardbound
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781532676871
First sentence: Since the 1960s, turbulent changes have emerged in the re-
ligious landscape of the netherlands. Secularization, individual-
ization, migration, and pluralization drive these changes toward
religious diversity, leading to increased atheism and agnosticism.
Description: Teachers of religious education experience the challenge of secularization and diversity in the classroom. Schools rooted in the Christian tradition wonder how they can adapt religious education to an increasing plurality in worldviews. How can worldview education contribute to the identity development of children and at the same express the identity of the school? Learning for Life introduces a hermeneutical-communicative model that helps teachers to reflect on their goals, didactical roles, religious sources and students' abilities. Teachers invite students to search for meaning in all kinds of religious and non-religious sources, to exchange views with each other in a respectful way and to respond individually using imagination as a powerful learning tool. Learning for Life explains the model, provides pedagogical backgrounds and shows results from research at nine primary schools in the Netherlands. Hermeneutical-communicative learning appears to be an inspiring perspective for both private and public education.
Table of contents: title: (from digital (Feb copy)); title: Contents; label: Introduction On Track with Learning for Life
title: vii; label: Chapter 1 european Challenges for Worldview education
title: 1; label: Chapter 2 The Dutch Challenge
title: 17; label: Chapter 3 Learning for Life
title: 37; title: Chapter 4 Staging Dialogical Worldview education; label: research outcomes
title: 58; title: Chapter 5 requirements for Teachers and Teams to Meet; label: the Challenge
title: 112; label: Reflection The road ahead
title: 130; label: Appendix A Toledo Learning Outcomes
title: 137; title: Appendix B Toledo Key Principles for Teaching Worldview; label: Education
title: 139; label: Appendix C List of Participants
title: 143; label: Bibliography
title: 145