Interreligious Dialogue in Schools: Beyond Asymmetry and Categorisation?

Autor/inn/en	Riitaoja, Anna-Leena; Dervin, Fred
Titel	Interreligious Dialogue in Schools: Beyond Asymmetry and Categorisation?
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 14 (2014) 1, S.76-90 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
DOI	10.1080/14708477.2013.866125
Schlagwörter	Dialogs (Language); Intercultural Communication; Religious Cultural Groups; Foreign Countries; Achievement Tests; Equal Education; Classification; Reading Achievement; High Achievement; Ethnography; Self Concept; Cultural Awareness; Intergroup Relations; Finland; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Ausland; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Leseleistung; Ethnografie; Selbstkonzept; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Finnland
Abstract	Interreligious dialogue is a central objective in European and UNESCO policy and research documents, in which educational institutions are seen as central places for dialogue. In this article, we discuss this type of dialogue under the conditions of asymmetry and categorisation in two Finnish schools. Finnish education has often been lauded for its successful implementation of equity and equality by the thousands of "pedagogical tourists" who visit the country's schools to witness the so-called miracle of Finnish education due to Finland's excellent results in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. Through theoretically informed reading of ethnographic data, we examine how Self and Other are constructed in everyday encounters in school and how religions, religious groups and individuals become regarded as Others. We also ask whether the aims of interreligious dialogue in schools represent a viable way to learn about each other and to increase mutual understanding. The theoretical and methodological approaches derive from post-colonial, post-structural and related feminist theories as well as from recent research on intercultural education and communication. (As Provided).
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