On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education

For the first time, leading scholars in Religious Education and Citizenship Education reflect upon ‘the making of’ of their theoretical framework, in honour of Siebren Miedema. In this Liber Amicorum, in retrospect these scholars recognize, implicitly or

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On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education Edited by Ina ter Avest Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword John Hull

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1. On the Edge: A Biographical Approach to Pedagogical Theory Development. The ‘making of’ Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education and Citizenship Education Ina ter Avest

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2. The Real Talks: On the Ambition to Deconstruct and Reconstruct Teachers’ Identity Claims Cok Bakker

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3. The Challenge of Double Reflexivity, Ethnographic Methodology in Intercultural Education Günther Dietz

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4. My Personal Contexts: Learning Religion in Context Hans-Günter Heimbrock 5. Religion as a Special World of Meaning Set Apart: On Imagination, Experiences and Practices of the Non-Cognitive Chris Hermans

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6. Religious Education and the Arts of Interpretation Revisited Robert Jackson

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7. Religion as a Gift: A Pedagogical Approach to RE in St. Petersburg Fedor Kozyrev

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8. Innovation of Religious Education: Innovation of RE in Primary Education as a Lifelong Challenge Henk Kuindersma

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9. Doing and Undergoing: Learning to Believe as Algorithm and as Heuristic Alma Lanser

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10. Reason and Religion: A Lifetime Curriculum Wilna Meijer

103

11. Conversation that Matters: Life Transforming Dialogue Mary Elizabeth Moore

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12. Jonah Was My Religious Teacher: The Paradoxical Character of the Gospel Challenges a Transformative and Transmission Pedagogical Approach to Go Hand in Hand Bram de Muynck

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13. Conflict or Cohesion? A Critical Discourse on Religion in Education (RiE) and Religion and Education (RaE) Cornelia Roux

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14. The Best and the Worst That Has Been Said and Done: Teaching Religious Ideals in Religious Education Doret de Ruyter

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15. Religious Education, Identity and Faith in (Post-)Modernity: More Than a Biographical Approach? A Personal Attempt at Finding the Red Thread in My Academic Work on Religious Education Friedrich Schweitzer 16. Religious Education among Friends and Strangers: Contributions of Revisionist Educational History to Public Living Jack Seymour 17. In Search of a Religious Education Approach Geir Skeie 18. Responding to Pluralism and Globali