Human Rights Education and Religious Education: A Protestant Perspective

2016 ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Thomas Schlag
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Rights Education

scholarly journals A matrix for assessing mutual impacts of human rights education and religious education

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-111
Author(s):  
Jasmine Suhner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Sustainable Societies ◽  
Perspective Analysis

To address the societal challenges of global solidarity and sustainable societies there is clearly a need for human rights education (HRE). The question arises as to which school subject is capable of contributing to HRE in which way – and how different disciplines may ideally collaborate. The situation is particularly challenging for religious education in public schools. Here there is an inherent potential for HRE, but there are specific didactic issues related to civil rights and liberties. This article presents a ‘matrix for human rights awareness’ that is based on a systematic and multi-perspective analysis. The matrix can be used to categorise current HRE approaches. It can also serve the self-assessment of the various reference disciplines for HRE, while promoting and supporting mutual communication and collaboration among them. Furthermore, it may serve as a reference framework to map the field of different models of public religious education, establishing their specific potentials for HRE.

Learning to remember the Shoah - human rights education and prevention of anti-Semitism

2020 ◽  
Vol XI (1 (30)) ◽  
pp. 9-36
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Schwendemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Anti Semitism

Anti-Semitism and group hostility undermine coexistence in a democratic civil soci-ety. That is why the prevention of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia is one of the educational tasks of schools, but also of religious education in particular. In religious educa-tion, therefore, the concept of learning to learn about and after Auschwitz must be combined with a stringent model of human rights education, which brings with it new didactic chal-lenges.

scholarly journals Human rights education as a framework for transmitting religion as cultural heritage

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Eva Lindhardt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Lower Secondary Schools

The child’s right to freedom of religion and belief and fundamental principles such as equality and non-discrimination constitute an international frame for religious education (RE). However, these rights might be challenged when RE is allocated a major role in transmitting the majority religion as national cultural heritage and national identity. This article will explore and discuss this issue. It is based on an analysis of the transmission of Christianity as cultural heritage in the national RE curriculum for primary and lower secondary schools in Denmark. The article argues that principles from human rights education could provide a basis for a more pluralistic, objective, and critical approach to RE, thus enabling the classroom to function as a community of disagreement.

scholarly journals Mediatised human rights education: the (challenging) role of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Ole Henrik Borchgrevink Hansen ◽  
Audun Toft
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Save The Children

The purpose of this article is to analyse and discuss Selma and the Quest for the Perfect Faith, a TV series made by The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and promoted for use in schools, and the accompanying teaching material about freedom of religion made by Save the Children. We discuss the series and material critically from a human rights and a human rights education perspective, and evaluate their suitability for use in religious education. The article is informed by mediatisation theory and argues that freedom of religion is primarily operationalised in accordance with journalistic criteria for presenting religion, and that it does not sufficiently balance the rights of children and the liberty of parents. This is inconsistent with sound human rights education and highlights the need for critical awareness when operationalising educational material produced and distributed by media actors for use in the classroom.

Human Rights Education for Youth With Intellectual Disabilities and Families

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Saaltink ◽  
Frances A. Owen ◽  
Donato Tarulli ◽  
Christine Y. Tardif-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Human Rights Education
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