Religion, Education and Citizenship Education: The Challenge of Turning Religion Upside Down

Authors Cok Bakker
Published in Alternation Special Edition
Publication date 2013
Research groups Value-oriented Professionalisation
Type Article

Summary

Reflecting on the link between religion and religious tradition(s) on the one hand and school and education on the other, and reflecting on the reasoning strategy to make sense of this link, people seem to tend strongly to think, argue and reflect in a deductive mode (this point is elaborated in par. 3). This part of the argument is followed by considering the religious claims people make concerning the impact of religion on the day-to-day educational practice, it is, empirically speaking. It is apparently wrong to take this deductive reasoning serious as a road to undisputable and unambiguous links between claims and practices (this point is elaborated in par. 4). Having identified deductive reasoning as wishful thinking or as a supposed but inadequate religious legitimatization of educational practices, which is demonstrated by the empirical educational praxis itself, the final part of the article deals with the question that arises again and anew, viz. how educational practices could be understood in their connection to religious beliefs (see par. 5). Here a paradigm-shift is needed.

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  • Cok Bakker lector NP
    Cok Bakker
    • Professor
    • Research group: Value-oriented Professionalisation

Language English
Published in Alternation Special Edition
Year and volume 2013 10
Page range 32-53

Cok Bakker

Cok Bakker lector NP

Cok Bakker

  • Professor
  • Research group: Value-oriented Professionalisation