Post by ignorantianescia on Jan 10, 2015 12:11:00 GMT
For years my daughter called it “colouring in”. And I assumed it was some sort of free lesson in the timetable. Much later I discovered this was the period that her school knew as religious studies – a subject, I am proud to say, that my children have all been spectacularly bad at.
Like them, I glazed over at the sheer inanity of the subject matter: a tepid version of cultural studies where religion is transformed into a calendar of funny festivals, lighting candles and distinctive headgear. And when the curriculum had the temerity to venture into territory with even the vaguest potential for moral or spiritual gravitas, it was obvious that a sort of moral and intellectual panic gripped many of the teaching staff.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/04/religious-studies-ditched-subject-schools
On the other hand, surely it is important to provide students a basic impression of several religious traditions. But just the Big Five seems to small.
Like them, I glazed over at the sheer inanity of the subject matter: a tepid version of cultural studies where religion is transformed into a calendar of funny festivals, lighting candles and distinctive headgear. And when the curriculum had the temerity to venture into territory with even the vaguest potential for moral or spiritual gravitas, it was obvious that a sort of moral and intellectual panic gripped many of the teaching staff.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/04/religious-studies-ditched-subject-schools
On the other hand, surely it is important to provide students a basic impression of several religious traditions. But just the Big Five seems to small.