RT Article
T1 Religious education for free and equal citizens
JF British Journal of religious education
VO 44
IS 1
SP 4
OP 13
A1 Barnes, Philip
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/177973316X
AB The aim of this article is to interact critically with Matthew Clayton and David Stevens’s recent critique of non-confessional religious education, constituted as a separate, compulsory subject in the school curriculum. Three different critical arguments are considered: the contention that religious education is an unsuitable vehicle for fostering toleration and mutual understanding; their framing and application of an ‘acceptability requirement’ to religious education, which states that government principles and policy should be justified by reasons that cannot be rejected by reasonable citizens, and which they believe religious education fails; and finally, their rejection of the view that religious education fulfils a democratic purpose in providing pupils with the competences to consider and assess religious claims to truth. Religious education is defended against all three charges.
K1 Toleration
K1 Religious Education
K1 Rawls
K1 Intolerance
K1 Educational Policy
DO 10.1080/01416200.2020.1854687