The secularisation of religious education: humanism, religion and worldview education in the Netherlands in the 1960s

Secularisation is often mentioned as an explanation for changes in worldview education in modern history. Worldview education has become less preoccupied with preaching religious truths and more with developing children's personal worldviews. However, how secularisation exactly explains these c...

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Authors: Stolk, Vincent 1984- (Author) ; Gasenbeek, Bert 1953- (Author) ; Veugelers, Wiel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2016]
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2016, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-200
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Netherlands / Secularism / Religious instruction / World view / Ethics teaching
IxTheo Classification:AH Religious education
KBD Benelux countries
Further subjects:B The Netherlands
B worldview education
B religious education (RE)
B Secularisation
B History
B Humanism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Secularisation is often mentioned as an explanation for changes in worldview education in modern history. Worldview education has become less preoccupied with preaching religious truths and more with developing children's personal worldviews. However, how secularisation exactly explains these changes is not clear. To get a clearer picture, we analyse developments in the Netherlands in the 1960s and compare these with Britain. Our source material primarily consists of educational, religious and humanist journals. We connect developments in worldview education to secularisation understood in three ways: reduced church attachment, the rise of alternatives to the dominant religion, and the decrease in references to religion in public space. Our findings show that changes in theology, decline in church attendance, professionalisation of academic pedagogy, and the growing popularity of dialogical methods strongly influenced the direction of both religious and humanist forms of worldview education in a similar way.
ISSN:1469-9362
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2016.1185225