Sammendrag
Norwegian religious education has since 1997 focused on three aims; learning
about religions and world-views, learning from religions and world-views, and
learning to live together. Religion and world-views is one of the most
important arenas in the school community where cultural diversity (ethnic,
national, religious) is displayed. This is a challenge for the whole school,
but in particular for religious education. Diversity in the classroom has
consequences for learning processes and learning outcome and is challenging
for teachers. Much new research has been done in religious education, but less
has been done to improve the real teaching. This project aims at making
teaching and learning in schools more effective by implementing and evaluating
research based approaches to religious diversity in a systematic way by use of
action learning and action research methods. The theoretical frramework and
pedagogy is based on a combination of two approaches to religious education
suggested by Robert Jackson in England and Geir Skeie in Norway. Experienced
teachers will be trained in the interpretive cultural approach taking into
account their present competence and teaching practice. They will adjust the
approach to their local context and apply this approach to teaching religious
education over a period. At certain points the learning processes as well as
learning outcome will be evaluated and adjustments made. The final analysis
will be fed into local curriculum planning according to the increased
decentralisation in the 2005 reform. The researchers continue to work with the
data and to discuss the results. Based on this a teacher-training project (B)
will follow up the school based project (A). A similar action research project
going on in England gives opportunities to cooperate and compare results.
Several international networks provide excellent possibilities for seminars
with religious education researchers that also work in the field of applied
research
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Vitenskapelig sammendrag
Norwegian religious education has since 1997 focused on three aims; learning
about religions and world-views, learning from religions and world-views, and
learning to live together. Religion and world-views is one of the most
important arenas in the school community where cultural diversity (ethnic,
national, religious) is displayed. This is a challenge for the whole school,
but in particular for religious education. Diversity in the classroom has
consequences for learning processes and learning outcome and is challenging
for teachers. Much new research has been done in religious education, but less
has been done to improve the real teaching. This project aims at making
teaching and learning in schools more effective by implementing and evaluating
research based approaches to religious diversity in a systematic way by use of
action learning and action research methods. The theoretical frramework and
pedagogy is based on a combination of two approaches to religious education
suggested by Robert Jackson in England and Geir Skeie in Norway. Experienced
teachers will be trained in the interpretive cultural approach taking into
account their present competence and teaching practice. They will adjust the
approach to their local context and apply this approach to teaching religious
education over a period. At certain points the learning processes as well as
learning outcome will be evaluated and adjustments made. The final analysis
will be fed into local curriculum planning according to the increased
decentralisation in the 2005 reform. The researchers continue to work with the
data and to discuss the results. Based on this a teacher-training project (B)
will follow up the school based project (A). A similar action research project
going on in England gives opportunities to cooperate and compare results.
Several international networks provide excellent possibilities for seminars
with religious education researchers that also work in the field of applied
research
Vis fullstendig beskrivelse