The Religion, globalisation and education triangle. Provincialising the contemporary discourse.

Autor/in	Yemini, Miri
Titel	The Religion, globalisation and education triangle. Provincialising the contemporary discourse.
Quelle	In: On education, 3 (2020) 7, 3 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2571-7855
DOI	10.17899/ON_ED.2020.7.9
Schlagwörter	Fallstudie; Israel; Religion; Religionsunterricht; Religiosität; Unterricht; Didaktik; Fallstudie; Schulbildung; Religionsausübung; Jüdische Schule; Jüdische Schule; Schulbildung; Didaktik; Unterricht; Religionsunterricht; Religion; Religionsausübung; Religiosität; Israel
Abstract	"This essay deals with the role of religion in globalised, national educational spaces. I argue that religion, which in Western education milieus is generally perceived as a marginal component of contemporary schooling and detached from the wider educational contexts of state schools, is becoming more relevant in many educational institutions. This is happening both as a result of the increasing mobility of families generating a presence of sustainable diaspora communities and as an outcome of globalised communities seeking new anchors for their ever-changing realities (Agbaria, 2019). Since much of the writing on religious education is critical of its incorporation into state schooling (e.g., Sabbagh, 2019; Elgad-Klonsky & Tamir, 2019), and occupies the hegemonic Western stance, I hereby discuss some empirical findings that show how religion may actually integrate with global processes and even lead them by re-framing the existing system of values and reshaping spatial and social settings in schools. Religion has always been a common source of self-identification that enables the sharing of worldviews and values, ?? and the development of solidarity in large communities. Religion has functioned for centuries as the maker and designer of relationships; but it has been argued that globalisation is reorganising the global sphere and consequently also the way people practice religion. The main claim in this argument is that secular trends are becoming more dominant in general, alongside secessionist tendencies of communities that oppose modernity and the effects of globalisation. Discourse regarding religious communities and the role of religion is sometimes patronising, assuming religious education as an anachronistic remnant of the old world. This tendency comes alongside writings that warn of the rise of religious communities and especially the impact of education on fundamentalism and religious extremism, especially in regard to Islam (Yemini, 2018). Therefore, in conjunction with this issue of On_Education, I seek to offer a different perspective on the intersection of globalisation and religion through an emic analysis of a unique case: a Jewish religious school in Israel that proactively adopts the global ideology, expressed mainly through teaching all subjects in English as well as utilising a pedagogical approach based on project-based learning of globally oriented issues." (INCHER/text adopted).
Erfasst von	International Centre for Higher Education Research, Kassel
Update	2021/1