A GIFT TO THE CHILD: A NEW PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING RELIGION TO YOUNG CHILDREN

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Researchers in the University of Birmingham in England have devised a method of teaching religion to children which is known as “The Gift to the Child Approach.” This study describes the main features of the method, compares and contrasts it with several other methods currently used in British religious education, and discusses its advantages. It is emphasised that the “gift approach” offers a method, not a curriculum, but since it can be used with materials selected from any number of religions, it is particularly appropriate for use in a pluralist context. Moreover, by initially removing the materials from their context within the religious community, the method insists upon the role of the educator as mediator between the religion and the child. 1 1 This article is a revised form of a paper delivered to the Fifth Nuremberg Consultation on Religious Education, 28 September—1 October 1994. The German text with an English summary under the title “How Can We Make Children Sensitive to the Values of Other Religions Through Religious Education” will appear in the forthcoming proceedings of the conference edited by Johannes Lähnemann, Das Projekt Weltethos in der Erziehung (Hamburg: EB Verlag Rissen). View all notes

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