Tell your friends about this item:
Schooling Indifference: Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces - Gender, Theology and Spirituality I'Anson, John (University of Stirling, UK) 1st edition
Ordered from remote warehouse
Our customers say:
Also available as:
Schooling Indifference: Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces - Gender, Theology and Spirituality
I'Anson, John (University of Stirling, UK)
This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts.
On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this educational framing is no longer plausible in the light of new theoretical developments within the academy. A new educational approach to RE is outlined that challenges students to think and practice differently. This includes a 'becoming ethnographer' approach that can acknowledge socio-material relations and engage the broader literacies necessary for such study.
Part One examines how RE has been constructed as a discipline in historical and spatial terms that abstract its study from material concerns. Part Two offers some new starting points: Spinoza, Foucault and feminist theory that differently foreground context and relationality, and 'Islam' read as a discursive, located tradition rather than as 'world view'. Finally, Part Three proposes a new trajectory for research and practice in RE, with the aim of re-engaging schools, colleges and universities in a dialogue that promotes thinking and practice that - as educational - is continually in touch with the need to be critical, open-ended and ethically justifiable.
200 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 16, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138184695 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 190 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 238 × 15 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Isherwood, Lisa (University of Winchester, UK) |
