Watch Ed Week's full interview with Calee on their YouTube channel and read more about how some educators approach
teaching about religion in «Program Takes Aim at «Religious Illiteracy» in Classroom» on Ed Week.
However, as noted in the Review of the Australian Curriculum Final Report, state - based legislation allows both special religious instruction classes and
teaching about religion and belief systems more generally in government schools.
Religious Diversity in the Classroom, a free webinar series produced by Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, examines how
teaching about religion across grade levels and subject areas can help meet academic standards.
The following statements distinguish between
teaching about religion in public schools and religious indoctrination:
He does try to make some place for
teaching about religion as against the exaggerated fears of administrators and teachers, but it is a small place.
Media reports of courthouse controversies involving school prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and ACLU challenges to Nativity scenes on public squares — coupled with challenges about the types of music the school choir is permitted to present during the holiday season — often skew rational thought about the importance of
teaching about religion.
The critical barometer in the instruction of religion in public education lies in this point: The educator must be
teaching about religion and not promoting or celebrating one religion over another.
For many public school teachers, social studies instructors included,
teaching about religion is a daunting task.
In fact, there is a difference between teaching religion and
teaching about religion, Chaltain said.
In the landmark Schempp - Murray decisions, it often has been overlooked that although the justices forbade worship in the schools, they encouraged «
teaching about religion.»
In his view,
teaching about religion uses analysis and description, not proclamation or celebration.
The Supreme Court reference to
teaching about religion is even more important and worthy of implementation today than it was 20 years ago.
Teaching about religion is not just a way of avoiding issues.
At present, the NCRPE is the principal agency promoting
teaching about religion.
The NCC's Kelley reported that recently a leading born - again Christian remarked in public that a great door had been opened by the Supreme Court's decision on
teaching about religion, but it has not yet been walked through.
School officials who earlier were willing to speak out for at least some form of
teaching about religion now retreat into silence despite the Supreme Court's explicit encouragement.
Two conference - symposia held in the anniversary year attempted to appraise the progress made in
teaching about religion in public education.
He wants religion to be presented as forcefully as science or economics - and thus goes far beyond what «
teaching about religion» usually means.
It is this second clause to which that other common phrase, «religious freedom,» refers, a phrase that has often been used to sum up the American
teaching about religion.
There can be neutral
teaching about religion, which is proper in American public schools, although it approaches a spectator sport.
Such neutral teaching may be proper in the schools, where
teaching about religion in an objective fashion is the norm.
But
teaching about religion «relativizes» or marginalizes it.
Among the many notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the area of religion was the 1963 case Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which held that tax - supported schools were only allowed to
teach about religion.
But to
teach about religion, as Nord suggests, would not achieve neutrality without teaching about secularism too.
I now
teach about these religions in a seminary lodged in a university.
again lmgts,
teaching about religions is certainly allowed in public schools.
These were originally designed not only to
teach about religion but also to train religious leaders and, at least implicitly, to promote religious faith.
But the question of what can be done to implement the court's recommendation that schools
teach about religion is also relevant.
Reacting to the publication of the review, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Whilst of course we welcome the recommendation that
teaching about religions in schools remains a statutory requirement, we continue to support the addition of RE, the contemporary subject in which such teaching occurs, to the national curriculum, which would end the pattern of varying quality across schools that currently exists.
But the small yet growing numbers of public school teachers who
teach about religion say religious belief, at least among their students, is as shallow as it is wide.
In Britain, the conservative government has mandated
teaching about religions, especially Christianity, in the national curriculum.
Many of the submissions to the national curriculum review also put a strong case for including
teaching about religions and beliefs systems, especially Christianity.
For example, in World History teachers are required to
teach about religion.
Not exact matches
An ever accumulating amount of research is finding that what every
religion and moral
teaching has said
about forgiveness is true.
You see, what the lord
teaches us, no matter which of the
religions we celebrate is love god, which brings
about humility.
How many scularist rock concerts haev you had, where the intent was to
teach you
about living without
religion, or to convert you to secularism?
To all
about the supremacy of
religion: The mission statement of Christianity is to spread the lessons of peace and love
taught by Christ to the world.
That is what
religion is
about,
teaching people to be generous to others, feed the sick or hurt or homeless, treating others like you want to be treated, being honest, kind, loving, and generous.
And the Church
teaches that the freedom of
religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them
about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»
I used to be, when I was a child and was
taught all
about religion.
i do nt care if you do nt beleive in god or my
religion, but one thing
about my
religion is it
teaches respect, to whatever your beliefs are
teaches ignorance thats the difference between me and you i care for others to were you only care
about yourself without the reprecussions of the future
This isn't
about that though, this is more a lesson in how both
religion and atheism together can be equally guilty of scamming people out of donations and book sales over trivial and distorted
teachings.
If you truly want to be a Christian, align yourself not with a
religion, but with what Christ
taught about kindness and love.
Religion teaches people THAT crap
about the universe creator which is TOTALLY NOT what either the 10 commandments were
about OR what they are for or all
about and I can 100 percent prove it so religious people HATE me because... by God I do the 10 commmandment and since I do the 10 commandment and work so hard to always do the 10 commandment... YOUR burning in hell cause you broke one and SINNED... its is ridiculas... what
religion HAS done regarding what God gave Moses... in the old testement.
You seem to think that someone who doesn't believe in god can't
teach others
about religion.
The worst thing
about any
religion is the
teaching that people should be happy with their lot in life because it's God's will.
It is the preacher's job to
teach you
about God and
religion — not schools.
If they really cared
about sticking to the letter of their
religion we wouldn't see them overlooking so many other obvious practices that run contrary to the Church's
teachings.
The point was to
teach about all major
religions.
If
religion was
about understanding and examining one's beliefs, catholic children wouldn't be
taught the concept of transubstantiation at age 7.