The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course
|
|
Author(s): Mariachiara Giorda (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)and Marina Guerrisi (Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 10
Source title:
Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini (Independent Researcher, Italy), Elena Favaron (La Scuola che Funziona, Italy), Elena Pacetti (University of Bologna, Italy), Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, UK)and Luigi Guerra (University of Bologna, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch014
Purchase
|
Abstract
Starting from the potentialities and the limits of the Italian Religious Education and the healthiness of the knowledge about religions, this chapter introduces an experimental method to teach religions created in the last few years in some Italian secondary schools. The experimentation the article is focused on is one of the consequences arisen out of the debate on the option of an education about religions rather than into or from one religion. The background is the inadequacy of the Italian educational proposal related to the cultural and religious pluralism of our society, not only in a scholastic context, but also in a more popular level of the public debate. Since in a democratic and intercultural society the comprehension of different religious realities is indispensable, the development in Italy - as it already happens in other European countries - of a new knowledge about religions should undoubtedly serve this purpose: educating to democracy and social participation is possible through a “History of Religion” course.
Related Content
|
Parveen Sharma, Sonia Sharma.
© 2026.
34 pages.
|
|
Oladayo Samsom Akinbile, Ruth Oluyemi Adekunle, Olufemi Timothy Adigun, Sindile Amina Ngubane.
© 2026.
26 pages.
|
|
Abeeblahi Ayokunmi Iyanda, Jamiu Agbolade Ogunsola, Ibraheem Adedayo Adediran.
© 2026.
28 pages.
|
|
Omolola Fausat Aromolaran, Olusanya Peter Orimogunje.
© 2026.
44 pages.
|
|
Oluwasogo Ruth Ogunleye.
© 2026.
22 pages.
|
|
Mncedisi Christian Maphalala, Siyanda Mluleki Kenneth Cele.
© 2026.
32 pages.
|
|
Nduduzo Brian Gcabashe.
© 2026.
12 pages.
|
|
|