Religious Education and Schools

While religious politics have been a widely discussed topic in the social sciences in recent decades, few studies develop general explanations based on systematic and detailed comparative analysis. This article seeks to explain when and how successful religious parties rise. To that end, I comparatively analyze the po…

• ATEŞ ALİ ALTINORDU

This article examines the need for the Muslim community of Britain to educate their youth with regard to a Muslim ‘way of life’. The aim of this study is to examine the theological basis for Islamic education. It further explores the status of Muslim schools in Britain with regard to culture and religion. This study h…

• AMJAD MAHMUD HUSSAIN

This study presents a new theoretical and pedagogical framework based on the theories of Critical Religious Education (CRE), Variation Theory (VT) and the Learning Study model with the purpose of improving teaching and learning in Islamic Religious Education (IRE). It reports a Learning Study conducted in a secondary…

• AYŞE DEMİREL UÇAN

John Dewey’s distinctive contribution to modern educational thought is remarkableand still influential. Over the last two decades, thinkers and scholars in educationhave reemphasized and debated the importance of Dewey’s ideas in educationalreform efforts and administration.2In the USA, Dewey’s work and influence have…

• SELAHATTİN TURAN

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• HANİFE AKAR

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• HANİFE AKAR
• YELİZ TEMLİ DURMUŞ

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• HANİFE AKAR
• YELİZ TEMLİ DURMUŞ

The concepts and goals that are relied on in intercultural development programs have not been clearly situated in the social contexts of education. ‘Steps’ and ‘strategies’ are applied with varied interpretations to different subject areas. In preparing individuals for encounters with cultural otherness, these approac…

Religion, nationalism and authority were the traditional pillars of the old state-societies of Western Europe. Three generations ago it was still a sacrilege to critize them. The church sanctified the national community and legitimated the authority (a monarch or an authoritarian leadership). If one of these pillars h…

Abstract Exploring one’s worldview requires a journey into one’s heart, soul and mind (Knowing Self). But Knowing Self requires Knowing Others, imperative in a global world. To what extent do schools prepare students for participation in that global world, especially when it comes to awareness of its worldview diversi…

• AYBİÇE TOSUN SÜVÜT

Relying on a theoretical frame developed in reference to an interdisciplinary research field, this article provides a critical analysis of Turkey’s citizenship education (CE) curriculum with a view to revealing discourses that inhibit the promotion of cosmopolitan values of human rights, democratic citizenship and div…

• KERİM ŞEN

This study investigates how a sample of middle school mathematics teachers interpret and use compulsory textbooks in the Turkish classroom context based on their: (i) purposes of using textbooks; (ii) frequency and duration of using textbooks; (iii) approaches to using textbooks; and (iv) preferences concerning an ide…