Teaching for tolerance
and freedom of religion or belief

Visions, models and methods

VISIONS AND PERSCEPTIVES

SUBJECTS, MODELS AND METHODS

Visions

• Zdenko Kodelja and Terrice Bassler (2004): Religion and Schooling in Open Society: A Framework for Informed Dialogue. Cf. booklet in pdf-format.
• IARF(2004): Project for interreligious consultations for creating educational strategies
• Janne Haaland Matlary (2004): Education for Tolerance. Religion and Conflict in Europe
• The religious dimension of intercultural education (Council of Europe, June 2004)
• Robert Jackson (2002): How School Education in Religion Can Facilitate the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-discrimination with regard to Freedom of Religion or Belief
• Abdelfattah Amor (2002): How to follow up on Madrid – Aims and Challenges
• Rosa María Martínez De Codes (2002): Reflections on the Madrid Conference
• Final document, Madrid 2001 (Madrid 2001)
• Ingvill Thorson Plesner (ed., 2001): Religious Education in Pluralistic Societies – Aims and Challenges
• John Taylor (2001): Responses to the United Nation's Study Paper on "The Role of Religious Education in the Pursuit of Tolerance and Non-Discrimination"
• Abdelfattah Amor (2001): The role of religious education in the pursuit of tolerance and non-discrimination
• Kofi Annan: Intolerance is taught and can be untaught (UN Press Release, November 2001)

Interdisciplinary perspectives

• Robert Jackson and Karen Steele (2004): Problems and possibilities for relating Citizenship Education and Religious Education in Europe
• Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs (2004): Me – us – them. On stereotypes

Intercultural Education

• Aviva Doron (2004) Delicate Balance. A role-play aimed at promoting tolerance and acceptance of the other
• Ameeta Mulla Wattal (2004): Multicultural Schooling
• Swapping cultures. A UK-based community cohesion project for children and young people

Religion/Interfaith education

• Stranmillis University College, Belfast (2005): Small World Project
• Robert Jackson (2004): Intercultural Education and Religious Diversity: Interpretive and Dialogical Approaches from England
• Recep Kaymakcan (2004): Inter-faith Education and Turkey
• Halldis Breidlid and Tove Nicolaisen (2004): Multi-Faith Religious Education In A Religiously Mixed Context: Some Norwegian Perspectives
• UNESCO's Interreligious Dialogue Program
• European Project for Interreligious Learning (2002-2004)
• Robert Jackson (2003): The Warwick RE Project. An ethnographic and interpretive approach to teaching Religious Education in primary schools in England.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik (2003): The Norwegian KRL-subject. A contextual approach to teaching about religion and ethics in primary school in Norway (curriculum description). “KRL”: Norwegian acronym for Christianity, Religion, Life Stances.
• David Chidester (2003): The ICRSA Religion Education Project. About the Religion Education project of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa, Cape Town - including updated information on current debates and developments regarding Religion Education in South Africa.
• John Hull (2001): The Contribution of Religious Education to Religious Freedom: A Global Perspective

Value education

• Zakiyuddin Baidhawy (2004): Interreligious Education for Multicultural Virtues. An Alternative for the Indonesian Context
• Kawsar Kouchok (2004): Teaching Tolerance through Moral and Value Education. An Experience from Egypt
• Halldis Breidlid and Tove Nicolaisen (2004): Values in Religious Narratives as Presented in Norwegian RE Textbooks. Focus on Gender and Ethnicity
• Research on values education programmes (Project 1: Fostering Spirituality in Late Modernity: Brahma Kumaris in the UK; Project 2: Assessing the approach of Sathya Sai Baba’s followers to young people’s spiritual and moral development)

Human Rights Education, Religion and Belief

• Lifting the Spirit. Human Rights and Freedom of Belief. A topic book for human rights education with 21 lessons, by the University of Mnnesota Human Rights Resource Center and the Tandem Project
• Ramola Sundram, IARF (2004) The Shared Space of Human Rights and Religious Freedom
• Michael Wiener (2004): Model United Nations Conferences: Another Approach to Teaching for Tolerance, Respect and Recognition
• Liam Gearon (2003): Pedagogical projects of the Centre for Research in Human Rights. The Centre's interests include: Citizenship education, Religious education through citizenship, Human rights education.

Peace Education

• educationforpeace.no: teaching for a better world (Norwegian Peace Council in cooperation with General Union of Palestinian Teachers, Ramallah). Norwegian, English and Arabic version.
• Youth in Peace Education: A Portal for Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding (University of Montreal, 2005>)
• Samuel Lee (2004): Educating for Culture of Peace in Asia-Pacific Region
• Ruth Firer (2004): Obstacles and Challenges in Israeli Peace Education Experience
• Ruth Firer (2004): To learn to live together - also a question of methodology
• Wolfram Reiss (2004) Visions of Society and Peace Education in Palestinian Texbooks
• Living in the Holy Land - Respecting differences.  Promoting understanding and tolerance between Moslem, Christian and Jewish youth in the Holy Land (Palestine and Israel). See more information

History education

• Sami Adwan and Dan Bar-On (2003): Sharing the Past. A project aimed at developing history textbooks that contains the Israeli and the Palestinian narrative around certain dates or miles-stones in the history of the conflict. Cf. more extensive project presentation (2003)
• Council of Europe project on History education
• UNESCO's Mediterranean Programme: Revision of History Textbooks (2001)