Religious Education in Zambia: social justice

Religious Education has long been part of Zambia’s primary and secondary education curriculum. Though it contains a social justice section, it has been weakly socially transformative. This could be seen to be a major challenge today if Religious Education is to be educational. With a swiftly expandi...

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Auteur principal: Carmody, Brendan 1947- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer 2023
Dans: Journal of Religious Education
Année: 2023, Volume: 71, Numéro: 1, Pages: 49-61
Sujets non-standardisés:B Inclusion
B Learning from
B Religion Religious EducationLearning about
B Social Inequality
B Social Justice
B social transformation
B Zambia
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Résumé:Religious Education has long been part of Zambia’s primary and secondary education curriculum. Though it contains a social justice section, it has been weakly socially transformative. This could be seen to be a major challenge today if Religious Education is to be educational. With a swiftly expanding social situation placing increasing numbers at the margins, it is argued that this frail transformative element in Religious Education results primarily because Religious Education has been assimilated by the main inegalitarian education system, which continues to be misinterpreted as delivering social justice.
ISSN:2199-4625
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of Religious Education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s40839-022-00178-6