Introduction to Religious Education
Prof.Dr. Mualla SELÇUK
Welcome to Religious Education Course.
The course is designed to help students understand and interpret Islamic
Religious Education from an interfaith
perspective. More recently, religious
education has taken on further tasks. A
rapidly diversifying student population
in public schools has forced the subject
to pay more attention on how to teach
religion.
Taking the multiplicity of faith traditions making up the global religious
landscape , the direction of religious education has moved to interreligious direction. It is essential to improve
students knowledge in their own religion
but also lead them to a deeper discover
of the richness of their own and of the
others’. At the heart of this learning in
encounter is a greater knowledge and a
deeper respect of the self and the other.
The course engages with the following query:
“What would it mean if we transformed our religious education system so that
students were empowered to know how to engage with
diversity in order to find guidance to crafting meaningful lives for
themselves and others?”
Structure of the Course
The course is based on transformative
learning model which I coined as “reflection in action”.
We as, lecturer and teaching assistan,
prepare” essential”questions for each lesson and share them with the students.
Encourage the students to reflect on their educational background in responding the questions and read the required articles.
