Who's Afraid of Secularisation? Reframing the Debate between Gearon and Jackson

Autor/in	Lewin, David
Titel	Who's Afraid of Secularisation? Reframing the Debate between Gearon and Jackson
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 65 (2017) 4, S.445-461 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lewin, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2017.1305182
Schlagwörter	Politics of Education; Political Attitudes; Religious Education; Prosocial Behavior; Civil Rights; Program Descriptions; Social Change; Criticism; Role of Religion; Religious Factors; World Views; History; Educational Theories; National Security; Cultural Pluralism; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sozialer Wandel; Kritik; World view; Weltanschauung; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Kulturpluralismus; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper examines the debate between Liam Gearon and Robert Jackson concerning the politicisation of religious education. The debate concerns the extent to which secularisation frames religious education by inculcating politically motivated commitments to tolerance, respect and human rights. Gearon is critical of a supposed "counter-secularisation" narrative that, he argues, underpins the REDCo project (Religion in Education. A Contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict in Transforming Societies of European Countries), suggesting that the politicising assumptions behind REDCo in fact extend rather than counter secularisation. Although Jackson's rejoinder to Gearon is robust and largely accurate, I suggest that it misses the basic challenge that religious education serves political ends. I argue that both Gearon and Jackson are enframed at a more fundamental level by a particular view of religion. The problem of pluralism is not, as Gearon supposes, a consequence of the secular framing of religion in terms of tolerance and respect, but predicated on a propositional view of religion that places competing truth claims in opposition. Nothing less than a transformed view of religion itself is the presupposition and the aim of religious education. (As Provided).
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