AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

India is a secular state

by Mikaela Edberg




Institution: Högskolan i Gävle
Department:
Year: 2007
Keywords: religions; religious education; school; field study; Jiva Public School; didactics of religion; Faridabad; meeting of cultures; India; religion; religionsundervisning; skola; religionsdidaktik; Indien; religionsmöte; meeting of religions; fältstudie; kulturmöte; Humanities; Philosophy, Ethics and Religion; History of Religions; Humaniora; Filosofi, etik och religion; Religionshistoria; Humanities; Humaniora; Humanities; Philosophy, Ethics and Religion; Religious Studies; Humaniora; Filosofi, etik och religion; Religionsvetenskap; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Religion/Theology; History of religion; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Religionsvetenskap/Teologi; Religionshistoria; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Religion/Theology; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Religionsvetenskap/Teologi; Religious studies education; Religion med ämnesdidaktisk inriktning; humaniora/teologi; Humanities, Theology
Record ID: 1333660
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Abstract

This report is based on a field study that was carried out in India. The aim of this field study is to find out how the religious education is carried out at Jiva Public School in Faridabad. The questions that are tried to be answered are if the teachers at this school integrate religious education in some of their subjects, if they see any problems performing this kind of education and what attitudes teachers’ have towards religious education. In the presentation of previous research, opinions of several international researchers regarding religious education and their thoughts about how a good religious education can be designed will be made. The empirical material has been assembled by doing qualitative semi-structured interviews with teachers at the school mentioned above. This kind of method suits well the aim and questions since the focus will be on trying to understand these teachers way to reason and act. When describing the methods, other problems that can occur during a field study are presented. The results are presented in text but also in diagrams, so that the reader can get a good overview. In the analysis and discussion the results will refer to the previous research. While analysing the empirical material a result was that a majority of the teachers did not integrate religious education in some of their subjects. They did not see it as their task and they meant that it is less important to get absorbed about people’s different beliefs since India is a secular state. You should not give any religion preference so why should you discuss about religions in your teaching? The focus should instead be on acceptance and to teach the pupils to respect each other no matter what. The teachers that did integrate religion in their subjects did this by celebrating religious festivals within the school. Only two teachers practised “ordinary” lessons when teaching about religions. ; Denna uppsats baseras på en fältstudie som har utförts i Indien. Syftet med fältstudien är att undersöka hur religionsundervisningen ser ut på Jiva Public School i Faridabad. Frågeställningarna som ska försöka besvaras är hur lärare på denna skola integrerar religionsundervisning i något av sina ämnen, om de kan se några problem med att utföra denna typ av undervisning och hur lärarnas inställning till religionsundervisning ser ut. I avsnittet Tidigare forskning redovisas flera internationella forskares syn på just religionsundervisning och hur de tycker att bra religionsundervisning kan vara utformad. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med lärare på ovannämnda skola. Denna metod passar syftet och frågeställningarna bäst eftersom fokus kommer att ligga på att försöka förstå dessa lärares sätt att diskutera och agera. I metodavsnittet kommer också andra relevanta problem man som forskare kan ställas inför då en fältstudie skall utföras att tas upp. Resultatet presenteras i löpande text, men också med diagram för att göra det hela mer…