1. Problems, survival and transformation: religious education in Scotland – a historical review, 1962–1992.
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Matemba, Yonah Hisbon
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RELIGIOUS education ,HISTORY of education policy ,EDUCATION ,HISTORY of educational change ,RELIGION & education ,CHRISTIAN education ,SCOTTISH history ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
This paper is an examination of the history of Scottish religious education (RE). Focusing on 1962–1992, it distinguishes the temporal processes that unfolded during this period to identify the circumstances that led to a serious case of neglect of the subject, especially in the non-denominational sector. Next, it highlights the less emphasised but important issue of how RE ‘survived’ in public education, going on to explicate the antecedents of a paradigm shift in the subject. Finally, curriculum reforms undertaken in the subject from the 1980s onwards are described, showing how these reforms helped to transform Scottish RE into an ‘academic’ subject well aligned with the curricular principles of ‘5–14’, the country’s first (1992) ‘educational’ RE programme. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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