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Historical Ideas, New Possibilities: Religion and Change in Education
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Historical Ideas, New Possibilities: Religion and Change in Education

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2021) | Viewed by 9662

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Fida Sanjakdar

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Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
Interests: Islamic education/schooling; cultural and religious education; sexuality education and schooling; controversy in education; curriculum theory, design and development; critical theory and pedagogy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue for Religions invites explorations of both historical and contemporary possibilities for religion as an influence of change in education. The role of religion in shaping and influencing educational change continues to be vigorously debated and regularly attacked as primitive and non-adaptive to modern society. Religion continues to be marked with fear, scepticism and growing polarisation across a number of educational spheres. This raises timely questions regarding the intersection of religion with politics, health and sexuality, science and the social sciences. As educational agendas change and nationalism and division in religion increases, how will educational institutions manage relationships across lines of difference? What role does religion play as a driver for change in education? How is religion reflected or interwoven in neoliberal 21st-century educational agendas? Should religious traditions be included in educational research, policy and practice? How does religion form connections in educational sectors and act as a catalyst for change in educational settings?  

This Special Issue welcomes research that speaks to historical and contemporary inquiry that explores innovative ways religion influences education, including, but not limited to, curriculum and pedagogy, specific subject areas, community relations, leadership and policy, educational ethics and student learning and behaviour. Papers from any theoretical and methodological perspective are encouraged.

Submission Deadline: Abstracts due—1 March 2021; Complete manuscript—1 September 2021

Dr. Fida Sanjakdar
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • religion as an influence of change in education
  • education and/or schooling
  • changing societies
  • religious literacy
  • religious pluralism
  • religion, curriculum and pedagogical reforms
  • teaching with/across different religions
  • religion, ethics and education
  • religion, policy and reform
  • contemporary/modern issues in education
  • religious and cultural sustainability
  • co-presence of religious and secular movements
  • diaspora, indigenous, and minority education

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Experiencing Religion: Post-Colonial Views for Religious Education
by Rito Baring
Religions 2022, 13(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010014 - 24 Dec 2021
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Framed within religious historicism, the present study reviews, through historical and empirical insights, the lessons that Philippine RE can learn from the liberating function of religion and liberated religious undercurrents parallel to institutional religion in the Philippines. The liberating function of religion is [...] Read more.
Framed within religious historicism, the present study reviews, through historical and empirical insights, the lessons that Philippine RE can learn from the liberating function of religion and liberated religious undercurrents parallel to institutional religion in the Philippines. The liberating function of religion is often overlooked in post-colonial discourses while religious undercurrent views seem neglected due to pre-occupations with untangling power imbalances submerged in the voices of institutional religion in post-colonial analysis. Hence, in this presentation, I give particular attention to the liberating role of contemporary religion in contrast to the post-colonial thrust to rid institutional religion of power and control and secondly, the liberated religious views of young Filipino audiences from empirical findings I found from my previous studies. For religious undercurrents, I limit myself to current unorthodox religious interpretations of young Filipino audiences departing from conventional assumptions of religion and culture. My analysis of liberating religion and liberated religious views from empirical findings show epistemological shifts from the Christian interpretation in a post-colonial context. These shifts point to de-institutionalized but theocentric religious ideas inspired by moral and communal considerations, which form the basis of RE content. Full article
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Secularization, Modernity, and Belief Shaping: Night School and Livelihood Education at the Chinese YMCA in the Early Twentieth Century
by Yi Yang, Xunqian Liu and Kuan-Yu Ko
Religions 2021, 12(10), 897; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100897 - 19 Oct 2021
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In the early 20th century, influenced by evangelicals in the United States, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) launched the “Four Movements” in response to the “Four Maladies” of Chinese society. Among the four movements, “livelihood education” is used to help raise productivity [...] Read more.
In the early 20th century, influenced by evangelicals in the United States, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) launched the “Four Movements” in response to the “Four Maladies” of Chinese society. Among the four movements, “livelihood education” is used to help raise productivity and save people from poverty. Research on the YMCA in modern China rarely focuses on livelihood education, and even when it does, it does not focus on educated adult civilians or explore how the YMCA has changed the course of their lives. Based on fieldwork and detailed analysis of historical documents, this paper traces the formation of three night schools that have adopted various forms of “Christianized” and “secularization” practices and sheds light on the lives of two typical students whose experiences in YMCA night school were still less known. This study will demonstrate and analyze the role of livelihood education in introducing Western civilization and Christian ideas to China’s labor class. YMCA night schools not only helped ordinary Chinese working people acquire basic livelihood skills on a secular level, which enables them to enter a higher class in society and exert influence, but also reshaped their beliefs. Full article
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