Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible

In many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher's job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a seventh grade Hebrew Bible classroom in which students we...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hassenfeld, Ziva (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Jahr: 2019, Band: 10, Heft: 6, Seiten: 1-14
weitere Schlagwörter:B Hebrew Bible
B Pedagogy
B Reader-response theory
B Religious Education
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Zusammenfassung:In many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher's job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a seventh grade Hebrew Bible classroom in which students were asked to find their own meaning in the biblical text. The study found that religious text classrooms can offer a unique opportunity to support positive youth development when an effective interpretive community is created.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel10060379