From Safe Spaces to Communities of Disagreement

Autor/in	Iversen, Lars Laird
Titel	From Safe Spaces to Communities of Disagreement
Quelle	In: British Journal of Religious Education, 41 (2019) 3, S.315-326 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-6200
DOI	10.1080/01416200.2018.1445617
Schlagwörter	Safety; Religious Education; Language Usage; Political Attitudes; Classroom Environment; Beliefs; Teaching Methods; Democratic Values; Civil Rights; Minority Groups; Ambiguity (Semantics); Religious Cultural Groups; LGBTQ People; Foreign Countries; Debate; Group Discussion; Secondary School Students; Student Attitudes; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sicherheit; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Sprachgebrauch; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Belief; Glaube; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Ethnische Minderheit; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Ausland; Debating; Streitgespräch; Gruppendiskussion; Sekundarschüler; Schülerverhalten; Norwegen
Abstract	The idea of the classroom as a 'safe space' has been popular in education for at least two decades. More recently, the term has also been used by religious education scholars not least in the wake of the use of the term in the influential Council of Europe publication 'Signposts'. In this article, I want to question the usefulness of the term 'safe space' within RE. The argument is not against many of the pedagogical aims and strategies that are referred to by the term 'safe space'. However, the term is ambiguous, fraught with politicised controversy and promises more than in can deliver. These problems cannot be easily fixed by defining the term anew. The article is not only critical in its aim. It presents an alternative strategy. In the conclusion of the article, I suggest construing the RE classroom as a community of disagreement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01