Search results for: Karin Sporre
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Societies go through changes. This book focuses primarily on two changes: (a) the fact that many societies through migration have become more multicultural over the last decades; and (b) that the matters of the relationships between women and men, the issues of gender, have also become important over the last decades, or the century. The context, that these changes are brought to have a bearing on...
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Societies go through changes. This book focuses primarily on two changes: (a) the fact that many societies through migration have become more multicultural over the last decades; and (b) that the matters of the relationships between women and men, the issues of gender, have also become important over the last decades, or the century. The context, that these changes are brought to have a bearing on...
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Values, Religions and Education in Changing Societies > Societal Changes Posing New Questions > 67-74
In this chapter aspects on a global citizenship education are discussed against the background of postcolonial relationships between North and South. This raises questions concerning the “situatedness” of us as knowers and how we position ourselves in North and South. I argue that the relationship to the global is different and varies, meaning that it matters where we are situated when discussing...
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International Handbooks of Religion and Education > International Handbook of Inter-religious Education > Inter-religious Education for Citizenship and Human Rights > 1017-1035
If you bring Swedish and South African undergraduate students together in a semester’s joint study of Human Rights and Democracy – can they understand one another? Will they through the learning processes get more perspectives to the knowledge they had beforehand e.g. concerning their own country and its contemporary challenges? Or to phrase the question just slightly different, can a group of South...
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Karin Sporre,
Jan Mannberg,
Springer Netherlands
Education is a societal matter and takes place in relation to societal changes. Today, in many countries, it has to grapple with diversity and differences brought about by migration and changes in gender relations. Questions of values, human rights and the role of religions are raised. In this book scholars from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Namibia and South Africa discuss the issues...
