Schooling Indifference Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces

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Synopsis

This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts.

On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this educational framing is no longer plausible in the light of new theoretical developments within the academy. A new educational approach to RE is outlined that challenges students to think and practice differently. This includes a ‘becoming ethnographer’ approach that can acknowledge socio-material relations and engage the broader literacies necessary for such study.

Part One examines how RE has been constructed as a discipline in historical and spatial terms that abstract its study from material concerns. Part Two offers some new starting points: Spinoza, Foucault and feminist theory that differently foreground context and relationality, and 'Islam' read as a discursive, located tradition rather than as 'world view'. Finally, Part Three proposes a new trajectory for research and practice in RE, with the aim of re-engaging schools, colleges and universities in a dialogue that promotes thinking and practice that – as educational - is continually in touch with the need to be critical, open-ended and ethically justifiable.

Book details

Series:
Gender, Theology and Spirituality
Author:
Alison Jasper, John I'Anson
ISBN:
9781351654746
Related ISBNs:
9780367876685, 9781315157801, 9781138184695
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
180
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-08-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
Routledge 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality