Teaching about Religion in History Classes: Sacred and Secular History.

Autor/inn/en	Abrahamson, Brant; Smith, Fred
Titel	Teaching about Religion in History Classes: Sacred and Secular History.
Quelle	(2000), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Public Schools; Religion; Religious Cultural Groups; Social Studies; World History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Gemeinschaftskunde; Weltgeschichte
Abstract	In teaching about religion there is the fundamental distinction between secular history, which is restricted to natural cause and effect relationships, and sacred histories, which assume that a spirit world exists and that human/divine interaction has taken place. In the United States, the academically approved way of dealing with these contradictions has been for public schools to teach secular history while parents and their religious leaders relate their own sacred history. At one time a classroom teacher assumed that the majority of students practiced Christianity. Student bodies today have children from a variety of sacred traditions as well as from non-religious homes. Teaching about religion in the classroom sometimes runs into conflicts between the secular and sacred concepts of history. This publication is designed to help educators deal with attempts to influence public school history and the social studies curricula when teaching about world religions. It is divided into two parts: (1) "Holy Books and History Teaching"; and (2) "Taking Religion Seriously across the Curriculum" (Warren Nord; Charles Haynes). (BT)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC