Values, Religions and Education in Changing Societies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Societal Changes Posing New Questions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Introduction

      • Karin Sporre, Jan Mannberg

      Pages 1-6

   3. Scandinavian Democracies Learning Diversity

      • Erik Amnå

      Pages 9-22

   4. Challenges to Building Sustainable Democracies: Lessons from the Margins

      • Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

      Pages 23-27

   5. Islam in Education: A Contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict?

      • Dan-Paul Jozsa

      Pages 29-44

   6. Religious Youth in a Secular Culture

      • Geir Skeie

      Pages 45-49

   7. Global Citizenship Education and Equality: Gendered Hegemonies, Tensions and a Global Gender Ethic

      • Madeleine Arnot

      Pages 51-65

   8. What Name Are We? Global Citizenship Education for Whom?

      • Karin Sporre

      Pages 67-74

   9. Diversity and Teacher Education

      • Denise Zinn, André Keet

      Pages 75-91

   10. Blind Spots and Privileged Places

       • Kerstin von Brömssen

       Pages 93-100

3. Religious and Moral Education in Changing Societies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Worldviews of Today

      • John Valk

      Pages 103-119

   3. Vital Issues, Worldviews and Religions

      • Sven Hartman

      Pages 121-127

   4. Namibia and South Africa as Examples of Religious and Moral Education in Changing Societies

      • Christo Lombard

      Pages 129-144

4. Towards the Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Emerging African Perspectives on Values in a Globalizing World

      • Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

      Pages 147-156

Education is a societal matter and takes place in relation to societal changes. Today, in many countries, it has to grapple with diversity and differences brought about by migration and changes in gender relations. Questions of values, human rights and the role of religions are raised. In this book scholars from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Namibia and South Africa discuss the issues above. Similarities as well as differences are highlighted. The varied contributors engage in a North-South dialogue. Among the questions addressed are: Can the Scandinavian countries be understood as more religious than their up-to-date, seemingly secularist reputation has led us to believe? How do some European, Muslim, Christian and secular pupils understand the religious education they receive? Could a global citizenship education, with a gendered understanding as an integral part, be accomplished? ‘Diversity’ and ‘social justice’: what does it take to theoretically integrate these two crucial parameters in education, in South Africa, and in Sweden? The role of religious and values education under changing circumstances is explored through the diverse contributions, that also challenge the hegemony of a Western understanding of democracy, among other values. The purpose of this is to assess what could now constitute global educational common ground.

• UMEA university
• academic disciplines
• changing societies
• conference proceedings
• global citizenship education
• islam in education
• migration
• religion
• religious and moral education
• schools
• teacher education

• Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  Karin Sporre, Jan Mannberg

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