How to Teach and to Ensure a Good, Sound Religious Education through a Multi-faith Approach at the Primary School Level
Titel:
How to Teach and to Ensure a Good, Sound Religious Education through a Multi-faith Approach at the Primary School Level
Auteur:
Singh, B. R.
Verschenen in:
Educational studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1987) nr. 2 pagina's 135-148
Jaar:
1987
Inhoud:
If Religious Education is to have an effective place in education and is not objectionable to younger pupils, there would appear to be a case for laying a foundation of knowledge, while the attitude to the subject is favourable and learning is thus easier to achieve. Then pupils are more likely to be in a well-informed position to discuss religion at the top of the school, than if teaching has already begun at an age when, although they were intellectually ready and able to undertake open debate, prejudice had already closed teenagers' eyes to the whole matter (Attfield, 1974) The school should be a community within which children should learn to live the 'good life'... By example at first hand children can learn to love and care for others, to be generous, kind and courageous. Good experiences in personal relationships in early life will make a most important contribution to an understanding of spiritual and moral values when children are older. (The Plowden Report, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 206, para. 568)
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