This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional school subject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the “world’s most secular country” To do this, it analyses discourses of religion as they occur in the classroom practice.
Karin Kittelmann Flensner got her doctorate in 2015 in Religious Studies with specialization in Education Science and has a background as upper secondary school teacher in the non-confessional, integrative school subject of Religious Education. She teaches in teacher education at University West and is currently working in a project concerning how the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East are portrayed, played out and discussed in Swedish classroom practices.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter1. Framing of the Issue.- Chapter2. The religious Landscape.- Chapter3. Perspectives on School Subjects.- Chapter4. Different Models of Religious Education.- Chapter5. From Fostering Into Christianity Into Critical Analysis of Religion in Society – The Development of RE in Sweden.- Chapter6. Classroom Research of RE.- Chapter7. Methodological and theoretical Approaches.- Chapter8. I am Neutral! a Secualrist Discourse.- Chapter9. “We are Stardust…” A Spiritual Discourse.- Chapter10. “In Sweden We are Christian” - A Swedishness Discourse.- Chapter11. Concluding Discussion.