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Worldviews Education: Strengthening Social Inclusion SYNOPSIS COMMENTARY Importance of Religion in School Curriculum

29 Dec 2021

Towards ICCS 2022 Worldviews Education: Strengthening Social Inclusion By Anna Halafoff SYNOPSIS Growing clashes within cultures, and the ongoing threat of terrorism, have drawn attention to the importance of educating youth about different worldviews – religious, spiritual and non-religious – as a strategy to prevent violent extremism and to create socially inclusive and peaceful societies. [...] Experts argued that education about diverse worldviews could increase understanding about and respect for minority religions, and thereby lessen feelings of alienation and the potential for radicalisation of young people in these communities. [...] This includes learning about religious, spiritual and non-religious perspectives and also discussion of hot topics, such as the intersection of worldviews with human and animal rights, politics and climate change. [...] Issues of rights are central to cosmopolitanism as well, and these decades saw the recognition of rights of persecuted minorities enacted in policies and laws against discrimination and for equality. [...] As the Far-Right is fuelled by anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim views, these negative stereotypes can be challenged by education and through facilitated contact and relationship building between diverse religious and non- religious groups and individuals.

Authors

Janet Fung

Pages
4
Published in
Singapore