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Powerful Knowledge in Religious Education

Exploring Paths to A Knowledge-Based Education on Religions

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Editors:
  1. Olof Franck

    1. Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Peder Thalén

    1. University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

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  • Brings together contributions from well-known authorities in the field of religious education
  • Contains comprehensive discussion of the under-researched knowledge problem within the field
  • Provides insights into the future of non-confessional religious education in public schools

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About this book

This book unites and explores different approaches to understand and develop knowledge-based religious education. While the importance of methodological issues in RE is understood and acknowledged, the editors and contributors interrogate what kind of knowledge should be explored, how this knowledge is defined and what the consequences would be. Subsequently, the book focuses on the concept of powerful knowledge which transcends students' everyday experiences, and how it can be incorporated into the RE curriculum. Drawing together international research from RE teaching and learning, the book explores various paths to integrate a truly knowledge-based religious education. The book will appeal to students and scholars of religious education, sociology of education and the philosophy of religion.


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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Powerful Knowledge in Religious Education? Perspectives in Conversation with Michael Young and Paulo Freire

    • Friedrich Schweitzer
    Pages 1-19
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  3. Powerful Knowledge in Ethics and Existential Questions: Which Discourses, for Which Pupils, in Which Contexts?

    • Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre, Annika Lilja
    Pages 21-42
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  4. Powerful Knowledge in Non-denominational Religious Education: Some Considerations on the Relationship Between Curriculum and Pedagogy

    • Olof Franck
    Pages 43-66
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  5. International Knowledge Transfer in Religious Education and the Debate on Powerful Knowledge

    • Peter Schreiner
    Pages 67-90
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  6. Knowledge-based Teaching About Religious Diversity: A New Approach in the “Culture and Citizenship in Québec”

    • Sivane Hirsch
    Pages 91-110
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  7. Powerful Knowledge or Big Ideas in Religious Education? Aims and Classroom Approaches

    • Michael J. Reiss
    Pages 111-129
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  8. The Role of Knowledge, Knowledge Processes and Experience in the RE Curriculum

    • Marios Koukounaras Liagkis
    Pages 131-150
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  9. Religion: A Legitimate Anomaly in Education?

    • Leni Franken
    Pages 151-168
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  10. Subject-specific Core Knowledge and Skills in the Academic Study of Religion(s) and Religious Education in Theory and Practice

    • Karna Kjeldsen
    Pages 169-193
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  11. Worldview Literacy as Transformative Knowledge

    • Martha Shaw
    Pages 195-216
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  12. RE and the Complexity of the Knowledge Problem(s)

    • Peder Thalén
    Pages 217-240
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  13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-246
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Olof Franck

  • University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

    Peder Thalén

About the editors

Olof Franck is Professor of Subject Matter of Education in the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Peder Thalén is a professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Powerful Knowledge in Religious Education

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Paths to A Knowledge-Based Education on Religions

  • Editors: Olof Franck, Peder Thalén

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23186-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23185-8Published: 17 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23188-9Published: 17 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23186-5Published: 16 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 246

  • Topics: Education, general, Social Sciences, general, Sociology of Education

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