Teaching for tolerance in Muslim majority societies
By: Recep Kaymakcan and Oddbjørn Leirvik, eds
Contributors: Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief; Learning About the Other and Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies (2005 : Istanbul, Turkey)
Publisher: Centre for Values Education (DEM) Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789756324981
Subjects: Religious tolerance; Congresses; Study and teaching; Toleration; Islam; Religious education; Muslim; Gesellschaft; Toleranz; Unterricht; Schulbuch; Religionsunterricht
Notes: "Based on a workshop held in Istanbul in November 2005 under the title: Learning About the Other and Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies"--Page 4 of cover.

"In cooperation with the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface:; title: Teaching for tolerance in Muslim majority societies  -- Oddbjørn Leirvik and Recep Kaymakcan; title: Curriculum and textbook revisions regarding the image of the "religious other" in Turkish religious education  -- Recep Kaymakcan; title: Image of "others" and tolerance in Turkish history and social studies textbooks: "not us", "the other is to blame"  -- Yücel Kabapınar; title: Some thoughts on the contribution of religious education to the formation of a culture of tolerance and respect towards "the other"  -- Beyza Bilgin; title: Promoting a culture of tolerance through education, with special reference to Turkey  -- Ibrahim Özdemir; title: Image of "the other" in textbooks about Islamic religious elementary education in Bosnia and Herzegovina  -- Nedz̆ad Grabus; title: Teaching culture of religions in Sarajevo  -- Nermina Baljević; title: Revision of textbooks with respect to the image of "the other" (Christians and Jews) in some Arab and Muslim countries (Egypt, Jordan and Syria)  -- Fawzia Al Ashmawi; title: Obstacles and chances of an international dialogue on curriculum revision in the Middle East: experiences of a German research project on school textbooks in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Iran  -- Wolfram Reiss; title: How to teach and not to teach tolerance to young children: some reflections from the Egyptian context  -- Kawsar H. Kouchok; title: Reflections on teaching religious education in the Palestinian education system: the situation, challenges and the way forward  -- Sami Adwan; title: History teaching and history textbooks in Lebanon  -- Munir Bashshur; title: Planned teaching manual for teenagers about the cultural aspects of Christianity and Islam  -- Joseph Kreidi; title: Teaching for tolerance in Nigeria  -- B. Aisha Lemu; title: Portrayal of the "insider" and "outsider" in the school textbooks of the Islamic Republic of Iran  -- Golnar Mehran; title: Some notes on the problems of religious tolerance in Indonesia  -- Nurman Said; title: Conscience-based tolerance education: global and Egyptian perspectives -- Oddbjørn Leirvik.