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Challenging Religious Education
Poverty and Social Inclusion as European Issues

The Challenge of Inclusive Religious Education
European Policy Recommendations, Research and Pedagogy

Prof. Robert Jackson

References

Council of Europe

  • Council of Europe (2004) The Religious Dimension of Intercultural Education (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing).
  • Council of Europe (2008a) Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)12 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the dimension of religions and non-religious convictions within intercultural education (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2008 at the 1044th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies). Available free online at - link
  • Council of Europe (2008b) White paper on intercultural dialogue: ‘Living together as equals with dignity’. (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing).
  • Jackson, R. (forthcoming 2010) Religious Diversity and Education for Democratic Citizenship: The Contribution of the Council of Europe, in K. Engebretson, M. de Souza, G. Durka, and L. Gearon (Eds.) International Handbook of Inter-Religious Education, Volume 4: Religion, Citizenship and Human Rights (Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publishers).
  • Keast, J., (ed.) (2007) Religious diversity and intercultural education: A reference book for schools. (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing). Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe - link to bookshop
  • OSCE (2007) Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools, (Warsaw: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights). (full text available free online at link).

Interpretive Approach

  • Jackson, R. (1997) Religious Education: An Interpretive Approach, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  • Jackson, R. (Ed.) (2003) International Perspectives on Citizenship, Education and Religious Diversity (London, RoutledgeFalmer).
  • Jackson, R. (2004) Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality: Issues in Diversity and Pedagogy (London, RoutledgeFalmer).
  • Jackson, R. (2006) Understanding religious diversity in a plural world: The interpretive approach, in: M. de Souza, K. Engebretson, G. Durka, R. Jackson & A. McGrady (Eds.) International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education (Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Springer Academic Publishers), pp. 399-414.
  • Jackson, R. (2009) The Interpretive Approach to Religious Education and the Development of a Community of Practice in J. Ipgrave, R. Jackson & K. O’Grady (Eds) (2009) Religious Education Research through a Community of Practice: Action Research and the Interpretive Approach, Münster: Waxmann, pp. 21-31.

Contextual Approach

  • Leganger-Krogstad, Heid (2000) ‘Developing a contextual theory and practice of religious education’, Panorama: International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values, 12 (1): 94-104.
  • Leganger-Krogstad, Heid (2001) ‘Religious education in a global perspective: a contextual approach’, in H-G. Heimbrock, P. Schreiner and C. Sheilke (eds) Towards Religious Competence: Diversity as a Challenge for Education in Europe, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 53-73.
  • Leganger-Krogstad, Heid (2003) ‘Dialogue among young citizens in a pluralistic religious education classroom’, in R. Jackson (ed.) International Perspectives on Citizenship, Education and Religious Diversity, London: RoutledgeFalmer, 169-90.

REDCo Research in Europe

  • Ipgrave, J., R. Jackson & K. O’Grady (Eds) (2009) Religious Education Research through a Community of Practice: Action Research and the Interpretive Approach, Münster: Waxmann
  • Jackson, R. (2008) The Contribution of Teaching about Religions and Beliefs to Education for Democratic Citizenship in Europe and Beyond: Consequences of the REDCo-project, Presentation at the European Parliament, Brussels, 3 December. Online: Available at link
  • Knauth, T., Jozsa, D.-P., Bertram-Troost, G. and Ipgrave, J. (eds) (2008) Encountering Religious Pluralism in School and Society: A Qualitative Study of Teenage Perspectives in Europe, Münster: Waxmann.
  • Valk, P., Bertram-Troost G., Friederici M.and Beraud C (eds) (2009) Teenagers’ Perspectives on the Role of Religion in their Lives, Schools and Societies. A European Quantitative Study, Religious Diversity and Education in Europe Series, Münster: Waxmann.
  • van der Want, A., Bakker, C., ter Avest, I. and Everington J. (2009) Teachers Responding to Religious Diversity in Europe: Researching Biography and Pedagogy, Münster: Waxmann.

Full list of available books in the Religious Diversity and Education in Europe series (including the REDCo books) at http://www.waxmann.com/?id=21&cHash=1&reihe=1862-9547

See also forthcoming special issue of the British Journal of Religious Education, March 2011.

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