{"title":"Study abroad, transformation, and ikigai: a case study","authors":"O. Bilash","doi":"10.32865/fire201952170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952170","url":null,"abstract":"This paper follows 10 years of evolution of a Japanese teacher of English in a small city in Hokkaido, Japan.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126252984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Indigenous Peoples through Religious Literacy and Spirituality: Unexpected pathways to peace education","authors":"W. Y. A. Chan, Harriet Akanmori, C. Parker","doi":"10.32865/FIRE201951135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE201951135","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) documented 94 calls-to-action in relation to the institutional and debilitating legacy of the Indian Residential School System towards Indigenous culture, language, identity, and knowledge in order to actualize reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and Canada. In it, Justice Murray Sinclair explained that education caused much of the problem but is also part of the solution. Concurrently, the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC) updated its policy on preventing discrimination based on creed that includes religious and non-religious systems that influence a person’s identity, worldview, and lifestyle. In accordance, drawing on a framework of peace education, we present religious literacy and spirituality as pedagogy as potential responses to concerns raised by the TRC and OHRC, and as a means to inform and dialogue about Indigenous cultures and spirituality that have been silenced from public education for centuries. Thus, we reflect on further opportunities towards reconciliation and pathways to peace education in Ontario.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133500870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: Sivasubramaniam, M., & Hayhoe, R. (Eds.) (2018). Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives. Oxford: Symposium Books. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-1-910744-01-7.","authors":"Annett Graefe-Geusch","doi":"10.32865/fire201951131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201951131","url":null,"abstract":"BOOK REVIEW: Sivasubramaniam, M., & Hayhoe, R. (Eds.) (2018). Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives . Oxford: Symposium Books. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-1-910744-01-7.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132593455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Religious Education: The Ethics and Religious Culture Program as Case Study","authors":"S. Jafralie, A. Zaver","doi":"10.32865/FIRE201951136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE201951136","url":null,"abstract":"Responding to religious diversity and the new reality of schooling, the Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) Program was introduced as a mandatory subject for all students in Quebec, Canada. Now in it's tenth year, the ERC has faced both challenges and successes in it's implementation. Though many studies have been written around the wider concepts of religious education and religious literacy in the public system, few studies have included voices from educators. Jafralie and Zaver's qualitative research study examines the potentials and struggles of the ERC Program, and by doing so, raise important considerations around the effective teaching of religion. The findings point to several consistent themes that teachers grapple with in regards to curriculum and pedagogy and highlights that in-service teachers are not thoroughly prepared to teach about religion, nor are teacher education programs effectively preparing pre-service teachers entering the field to deal with the complexities of teaching about religion in a secular setting. The authors suggest avenues in which teacher education for ERC teachers, and all religious education teachers, can look like in order for students and teachers to engage meaningfully with religious diversity.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131572345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: McGill, J. (2016). Religious Identity and Cultural Negotiation: Toward a Theology of Christian Identity. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. 286 pp. ISBN: 9781498290128","authors":"James B. Gerrie","doi":"10.32865/FIRE20195126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE20195126","url":null,"abstract":"BOOK REVIEW: McGill, J. (2016). Religious Identity and Cultural Negotiation: Toward a Theology of Christian Identity. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. 286 pp. ISBN: 9781498290128","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133027721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Spiritual and Moral Education\" in Russian Public Schools: Constructing a Neo-traditionalist Identity","authors":"A. Ozhiganova","doi":"10.32865/fire201951141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201951141","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the problems of teaching religion in post-Soviet Russia public schools which has become an important part of the national educational politics since the 2000s. Teaching religion is implemented in a number of compulsory and optional school subjects united under the name of spiritual and moral education and based on the so called national traditional values , such as patriotism , traditional religions , family and so on. I analyze spiritual and moral education as conducive to creating a very specific state ideology, which can be characterized as neotraditionalist, the main components of which are great-power ambitions, ethno-nationalism and Russian Orthodoxy. I draw special attention to the problem of patriarchy, family, and gender roles as important components of the ideology of neotraditionalism. The objective of the article is to show how the ideological principles of neotraditionalism are embodied in methodological materials and textbooks used in the religion-related courses and what types of identities – civic, religious, and gender – they construct.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115240955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holocaust Education in Germany: Ensuring relevance and meaning in an increasingly diverse community","authors":"Monica Vitale, Rebecca Clothey","doi":"10.32865/FIRE201951139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE201951139","url":null,"abstract":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘open-door’ policy towards the recent wave of migrants and refugees to Europe shows promise for expanding the workforce and increasing diversity, yet opens up some significant cultural and religious differences. Although the government has created programs to aid in their transition, little attention has been paid to how school curriculum, particularly education on the Holocaust, is presented to students for whom the event lacks personal, religious, or social relevance or who may have been taught that it is a fabrication. This study focuses on how classroom material presents the rise of National Socialism and the Holocaust through a document analysis of curriculum materials from a Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany. Results show that even at the highest level of the education system, students are not being presented with the material in a way that draws relevance to the present day nor fosters meaning for recent immigrants. For the Holocaust, which is both a significant historical event and a critical lesson in the importance of universal human rights, effective education is imperative in order to combat present global trends of radicalism and intolerance.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122590995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Student-Faculty Collaborative Journey toward Transformative Religious and Secular Worldview Literacy","authors":"Ryan S. Gardner","doi":"10.32865/FIRE201951134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE201951134","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the process and results of an action research project conducted during collaboration between one professor and seven students as they worked on designing a course to help students at a religiously owned and sponsored university become “religiously literate” persons, as described by the American Academy of Religion. The new course has been designed to enhance students’ public service, increase professional effectiveness, and enrich their private lives. Administrators, faculty, and students in similar contexts will hopefully see in this report how such efforts can create a transformative educational space that helps students become leaders in a world where religious diversity is understood, protected, and respected.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114642196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: Hilton III, J. (Ed.). (2018). Teaching Religion Using Technology in Higher Education. New York, NY: Routledge. 212 pp. ISBN: 9781138087224.","authors":"B. Marcus","doi":"10.32865/fire20195128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire20195128","url":null,"abstract":"BOOK REVIEW: Hilton III, J. (Ed.). (2018). Teaching Religion Using Technology in Higher Education. New York, NY: Routledge. 212 pp. ISBN: 9781138087224.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123449348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism – Case study of the Uyghur Muslims in China","authors":"Dilmurat Mahmut","doi":"10.32865/FIRE201951142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/FIRE201951142","url":null,"abstract":"As a secularist state, China has always been highly sensitive about religious traditions, particularly Islam. During the late 1990s and especially after the 9/11 terrorist events, the government rhetoric has been to equate the Islamic knowledge and identity with violent ethnic separatism, and more recently extremism and terrorism (Roberts, 2016, 2018). Thus, the Uyghurs’ right to access Islamic knowledge and practice Islam has been increasingly restricted and diminished (Cook, 2017; Millward, 2018). After reviewing the recent history of Chinese rhetoric and policies regarding the religious education in Xinjiang, this article discusses the possible ramifications of such developments, via the lenses of post-colonialism, the Politics of Recognition (Taylor, 1994), the push and pull factors that trigger radicalization, and religious literacy. Meanwhile, through sharing the perspectives of the Uyghur diaspora in Canada, the author also highlights that current Chinese policies and practices could deepen the “us” vs. “them” dichotomy between the Muslim Uyghurs and the majority Han population as well as the Chinese state, therefore creating more tension in society.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132872133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}