Religion and Education

 
Religion and Education Bibliography
The Workshop
Workshop Themes
Participants
Workshop Report
Videos
  

Religion and Education Bibliography 

The Religion and Diversity Project has created and made available a large bibliographic reference list of research about religion and education in Canada. To access this bibliography, please click on the image below.

The Workshop - Whose religion:  Education about religion in public schools

The workshop, "Whose religion:  Education about religion in public schools," was held at the University of Ottawa on November 4-6, 2013. The goal of the workshop was to examine the complex intersection of religion and education from a variety of theoretical and transnational perspectives. While there are unique features to the Canadian scene where education is a matter of provincial jurisdiction, the controversies in Canada have their parallels in other countries where the role of religion in education is also being contested by educators, policy makers, religious groups and parents.
 

Workshop Themes

The workshop presentations were organised around five themes which invited consideration of religion and education from a number of theoretical perspectives:

• current controversies and challenges;
• theoretical and methodological issues in the examination of "education about religion";
• religious literacy;
• religion, education and citizenship;
• resistance and minority voices.

Participants

Learn more about the participants by clicking on their names and reading their biographies.
 

	Lori G. Beaman		Mathew Guest		Heather Shipley
	Donald Boisvert		Anna Halafoff		Sonia Sikka
	Catherine Byrne		Solange Lefebvre		Geir Skeie
	Adam Dinham		Damon Mayrl		Leo Van Arragon
	Stéphanie Gravel		Alison Mawhinney		Pamela Dickey Young
	Bruce Grelle		Asha Mukherjee

Workshop Report

Find out more about the Whose Religion?: Education about Religion in Public Schools workshop by reading the report written by Student Team Member Leo Van Arragon and Jessica Ford.

Videos

View the videos of the presentations that were offered as part of the workshop by clicking on the links below. The videos are approximately 20 minutes and showcase each participant's expertise. You can also access the complete list of videos on the Religion and Diversity Project's Youtube channel.

Videos	Topics	Themes
Anna Halafoff Part 1 | Part 2	The Religion in Schools Debate in Victoria.	♦ Secular instruction ♦ Religious instruction ♦ Australia
Catherine Byrne Part 1 | Part 2	Religion, the elephant in the Asia-focused Australian classroom.	♦ Instruction and education ♦ Role of the state in education and religion ♦ Education and religion in a diverse society ♦ Australia
Solange Lefebvre Part 1 | Part 2	Religious education in Québec: neutrality and spirituality.	♦ Religious neutrality in education ♦ Spirituality and religion ♦ Role of education in spirituality ♦ Québec
Donald Boisvert Part 1 | Part 2	Whose approach to the study of religion? The academic origins of Québec’s ERC curriculum.	♦ Religious culture ♦ The role of the state in religion ♦Homogenization of religion in society ♦ Québec
Sonia Sikka Part 1 | Part 2	What is Indian religion?	♦ Defining religion ♦ Reductionism ♦ Western and Indian perspectives ♦ India
Geir Skeie Part 1 | Part 2	What does conceptualization of religion have to do with religion in education?	♦ Multifaith religious education and religion as culture and in public education ♦ National, international, academic and practical perspectives ♦ Norway
Damon Maryl Part 1 | Part 2	Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of Australian and American Jews, 1945-1980.	♦ Minority religious group responses to majoritarian pressures ♦ Social and legal factors ♦ Communal factors ♦ Jews, Australia, US
Pamela D. Young Part 1 | Part 2	Sex and religion in Canadian schools.	♦ Religion ♦ Sexuality ♦ Youth ♦ Canada
Heather Shipley Part 1 | Part 2	The spaces in between: religious and sexual intersections in education.	♦ Sexual citizenship ♦ Religious citizenship ♦ Power and public policy ♦ Ontario
Lori G. Beaman Part 1 | Part 2	Law's entanglements:  Resolving questions of religion and education.	♦ Courts, law, education and religion ♦ Stakeholders in education ♦ Canada
Bruce Grelle Part 1 | Part 2	Theory and politics of religious education in public schools.	♦ Human rights ♦ Secularism, religion and neutrality ♦ Education and indoctrination ♦ Civic values ♦ United States ♦ International
Alison Mawhinney	Protecting freedom of thought in schools: The case of Ireland.	♦ International law and national policies ♦ Religious education ♦ Religious freedom and opting out provisions ♦ Europe ♦ Ireland
Stéphanie Gravel Part 1 | Part 2	Le programme québecois Éthique et culture religieuse :  Enseignants et impartialité.	♦ Neutrality and impartiality ♦ Teacher training ♦ Professional judgement in the classroom ♦ Common values ♦ Québec
Asha Mukherjee Part 1 | Part 2	Religion as a separate area of study in India.	♦ Defining religion ♦ Secularism ♦ Alternative modernities ♦ Teaching about religion in India
Mathew Guest Part 1 | Part 2	Christianity and the university experience:  Student faith in contemporary England.	♦ Secularization and desecularization ♦ “Christian experience” ♦ Negotiation of faith in public space ♦ United Kingdom
Leo Van Arragon Part 1 | Part 2	Religion and education in Ontario public education:  contested borders and uneasy truces.	♦ Law and religion ♦ Education about religion and religious education ♦ Critical thought ♦ Religious neutrality ♦ Ontario

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