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Challenging Religious Illiteracy A Critical Pedagogy for Teaching the Abrahamic Religions Professor Andrew Wright, King’s College London Teaching the Abrahamic Religions 7 th International DAN Conference, 15-17 April 2009, Canberra
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Challenging Religious Illiteracy
A Critical Pedagogy for Teaching the Abrahamic
Religions
Professor Andrew Wright, King’s College London
Teaching the Abrahamic Religions7th International DAN Conference, 15-17 April 2009,
Canberra
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critical realism
o ontological realism
o epistemic relativity
o judgemental rationality
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critical religious education
o focus on the most significant (critical) aspects of religions [ontological realism]
o attend to key controversial (critical) issues
[epistemic relativism]
o seek to make informed (critical) spiritual
responses [judgemental rationality]
oWhat
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critical pedagogy
o priority of learning over teaching
o teachers: professionals, not technicians
o theory + practice
o ‘banking’ pedagogy
o ‘constructivist’ pedagogy
o ‘critical’ pedagogy
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ultimate reality(ontological realism)
o religious and secular truth claimso reality: experienced, actual and realo explanatory modelso propositions, stories, meta-narrativeso life-worlds and worldviewso from social science to theologyo from religious phenomena to sacred texts
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contested worldviews(epistemic relativity)
o embracing religious controversy
o deep (ontological) differences
o contested accounts of ultimate reality
o learning through variation
o relativity.... beyond relativism
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religious literacy(judgemental rationality)
o the pursuit of truth and truthful living
o relational knowledge
o personal/existential engagement
o faith seeking understanding
o from rationalism to wisdom
o spiritual discernment
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Jesus of Nazareth
1. Ultimate Reality (ontological realism)
Address the critical question: Who was/is Jesus?
2. Contested Worldviews (epistemic relativism)
Introduce critical conflicting answers
> a moral teacher? (Judaism / secular humanism)
> a prophet of God? (Islam)
> a spirit-filled ‘superman’? (gnosticism /docetism / arianism / new age)
> God incarnate? (Christianity)
3. Religious Literacy (judgemental rationality)
Encourage student s’ critical (wise/informed/literate) responses
