Enhancing Informed Empathy as a Key to Promoting Social Justice in Religious Education Classes

Autor/in	Kimanen, Anuleena
Titel	Enhancing Informed Empathy as a Key to Promoting Social Justice in Religious Education Classes
Quelle	In: Journal of Religious Education, 70 (2022) 1, S.77-93 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kimanen, Anuleena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1442-018X
DOI	10.1007/s40839-022-00159-9
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Empathy; Religious Education; Secondary School Students; Class Activities; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Cultural Pluralism; Student Attitudes; Grade 8; Grade 9; Personal Autonomy; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Empathie; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Sekundarschüler; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Kulturpluralismus; Schülerverhalten; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Individuelle Autonomie; Finnland
Abstract	In the field of education concerning cultural diversity it has been recognized as vital to address justice in social structures. Although justifications for religious education in non-confessional contexts are heavily based on religious diversity, their advocates have paid little attention to justice and power relations. In this article, I analyse observations of five observed classroom activities on social justice designed for religious education and related pupil interviews. The participants were in the eighth and ninth grades of Finnish comprehensive school. The main question is: how do elements of informed empathy and perception of social justice emerge in interviews and RE classroom activities with Finnish lower secondary school pupils? The results show that the concept of informed empathy well describes the pupils' emerging awareness of social justice, that pupils' critical agency should be carefully fostered and that social justice has potential to make religious education more relevant for certain pupils. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01