VIRTUAL EVENT: The faith-based curriculum and priming pedagogies
In this webinar, Dr Ruth Wareham (Humanists UK) proposes a transformational model of teaching for religiously-minded educators that respects the autonomy and rationality of learners.
VIRTUAL EVENT: The faith-based curriculum and priming pedagogies
18 Nov 2020, 17:30 – 19:00
For more information and to register for the event, please contact Alison Brady.
Philosophical accounts of harms engendered by faith schools traditionally focus on the claim that, when such institutions teach for belief in religious propositions, they are indoctrinatory.
Indoctrination is problematic because it bypasses pupils’ rationality and violates their autonomy. This generates the assumption that, by avoiding indoctrination, religious schools can circumvent the charge of threatening autonomy.
In this talk, Dr Wareham contends that religiously distinctive, non-indoctrinatory models of faith schooling (‘priming pedagogies’) may still violate autonomy. However, a transformational model may allow religiously-minded liberal educators to draw on insights from their favoured conception of human flourishing while respecting the autonomy and rationality of learners.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Taylor Wilcox via Unsplash
Dr Ruth Wareham
Education Campaigns Manager
Humanists UK
Between 2016 and 2018, Ruth was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the 'Faith Schooling: Principles and Policies Project' at the University of Warwick.
She has a PhD in the philosophy of education from the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral thesis focused on the moral permissibility of faith schools in liberal democracies.
Prior to entering academia, Ruth spent six years working as a primary school teacher in Birmingham and the West Midlands. She is the co-author of 'How to Regulate Faith Schools' (with Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason and Adam Swift).
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