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Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: Christianity in DialoguewithJudaism& Islam 15-17 April 2009
A very interesting conference.
Highlights was professor
Andrew Wright from Kings College at teh University
of London. His presentation on "Critical realism" is a
challenge to the 'banking' and 'constructivist' pedagogical models.
The key to teaching about the Abrahamic religions is not to teach as
though we are all the same, but rather to learn from the points of
difference. Relativity - not Relativism - is the
key.
"It is better to have a society of discontented
philosophers than a society of contented sheep"
Our role as
educators is to enable our students to grow in their religious
literacy.
"Every student who walks into our classroom is
already a theologian/ They already have language about God. Our job is
to enable them to be better theologians"
Peter Vardy was also quite an inspiring speaker. His presentation argued that the history of the Abrahamic religions is a history of war, and that we havce an obligation to address this in our teaching. It is not our role to educate people in our own certainties.
The Dan website is at http://www.dialogueaustralasia.org/
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Posted at 04:31PM Apr 18, 2009
by Nigel Mitchell |
Nigel Mitchell
- Location
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Organisation
- Australian Science Teachers Association
- Sector
- More than one sector
- Role
- Teacher/Educator
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Australian Studies, BeginningTeacher, Church, distance education, e-learning, history teachers, online learning, Religious Education, SOSE, Studies of Religion
