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Welcome to Education About Religions and Beliefs

Welcome to the clearinghouse on Education about Religions and Beliefs!

Why are we doing this site? Participants at the AoC January 2008 Madrid Forum expressed the strong desire that the next AoC clearinghouse should be a clearinghouse on “Education about Religions and Beliefs” (ERB). Education about different religions and beliefs, and critically thinking about the nature of beliefs, enables populations to deal sensitively and tolerantly with the reality of today's globalized multicultural world where one will encounter people who believe in many different religions, or people who may not believe in any religion at all.

This site focuses on primary and secondary education about religions and beliefs – as a starting point. Material on civic education, tolerance education, ethics education, and other forms of education aimed at enabling us to learn to live together will also be featured.

This clearinghouse is meant to be useful to policy-makers, educators, and researchers in these fields. More details on this site are available in the section on Overview of Education about Religions and Beliefs as well as the Questions Bubble Section.

Please see Join Our Community to engage actively with this clearinghouse.

Rafi.ki

United Kingdom

Rafi.ki is a large, accessible and user-led online learning community in which pupils and teachers from around the world collaboratively develop their understanding of global issues through communication and joint participation in educational project

What kinds of syllabi on ERB are available at this site?

Links to Recent News Articles
August 26, 2010
We need righteous education [The Jamaica Gleaner]

August 25, 2010
Harry Potter essential to learn morals [The advertiser]

August 23, 2010
Religious opposition to Religious Education reform challenged [Ekklesia]

August 23, 2010
Teachers ‘must instill tolerance’ [The Jakarta Post]

Upcoming Events
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

CFP: Religious Experience: Language and Truth
2010/09/01
Articles are invited for a forthcoming issue of Journal of Dharma, International Quarterly on Religion and Philosophies on: "Religious Experience: Language and Truth" (July September issue). If you are interested, you are welcome to submit

International Conference Intercultural Education as a Project for Social Transformation
2010/09/16
This Conference aims to explore Intercultural Education theory and practice starting from the following assumptions: • Intercultural Education is not just about cultural differences, but about all of our characteristics as individuals and as members

The Future of Faith in the Age of Globalization
2010/09/19
The primary objective of this international conference is to explore faith-based perspectives which may help in understanding and responding to the multi-faceted challenges of the phenomenon of globalization.Second, the conference seeks to identify common