Considering religious education in context: politics, reform and debates among Turkish Cypriots

Latif, Dilek

doi:10.1080/13617672.2018.1472998

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“…The focus of the assessment is to ensure that the quality of these textbooks is by the curriculum and to detect the contents that contain elements of violence, extremism, radicalism, and discrimination. Therefore, the nature of religious education, which is to care for plurality, respect differences, and create tolerance and a culture of peace, can be realised (Latif, 2019). Therefore, if these elements exist, the textbook is immediately declared unfit for publication or rejected without considering other aspects.…”

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“…The assessment of religious textbooks is the government's strategy to realise religious moderation in a multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious country like Indonesia (Campbell, 2017;Latif, 2019;Ropi, 2019). According to Franken, in a plural country, there is a challenge to the complex relationships between the state, communities, and schools (Daheri, 2023;Franken, 2017;Hanafi, 2022).…”

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Textbook assessment and religious education efforts: how to achieve religious moderation in schools?

Sihombing,

Fatra,

Suhaib

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ATH

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This article delineates the process of evaluating the substance of religious education literature affiliated with Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Moderation is regarded as a fundamental component of a pluralistic and multicultural society. Beyond that, its primary objective is to prevent division within the nation and address the issue of intolerance in textbooks. By employing a qualitative-descriptive-exploratory conceptual framework and conducting focus group discussions (FGDs) with multiple experts, this writing method is informed by meticulous observation and reading of religious education texts spanning grades kindergarten to high school. This research demonstrates that religious textbooks continue to include material that has the potential to incite violence, prejudice, and hostility. Furthermore, this analysis establishes textbook evaluation as a "bridge" to achieving religious moderation in madrasas and institutions. The independent assessment team and the book evaluation committee were both interviewed. This study emphasises the significance of providing authors and publishers with writing guidelines, training, and mentoring to ensure that the quality of textbooks produced aligns with the content embraced by the nation's norms, values, and culture. Artikel ini menguraikan proses penilaian substansi literatur pendidikan agama yang berafiliasi dengan Islam, Katolik, Protestan, Hindu, dan Budha. Moderasi dianggap sebagai komponen mendasar dari masyarakat pluralistik dan multikultural. Selain itu, tujuan utamanya adalah untuk mencegah perpecahan dalam bangsa dan mengatasi masalah intoleransi dalam buku pelajaran. Dengan menggunakan kerangka konseptual kualitatif-deskriptif-eksploratif dan melakukan diskusi kelompok terfokus (FGD) dengan berbagai ahli, metode penulisan ini didasarkan pada observasi dan pembacaan yang cermat terhadap teks-teks pendidikan agama mulai dari tingkat taman kanak-kanak hingga sekolah menengah atas. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa buku teks agama masih memuat materi yang berpotensi memicu kekerasan, prasangka, dan permusuhan. Lebih lanjut, analisis ini menjadikan evaluasi buku teks sebagai “jembatan” pencapaian moderasi beragama di madrasah dan lembaga. Tim penilai independen dan panitia evaluasi buku sama-sama diwawancarai. Studi ini menekankan pentingnya memberikan pedoman penulisan, pelatihan, dan pendampingan kepada penulis dan penerbit untuk memastikan bahwa kualitas buku teks yang dihasilkan sejalan dengan konten yang dianut oleh norma, nilai, dan budaya bangsa.

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Textbook assessment and religious education efforts: how to achieve religious moderation in schools?

Sihombing,

Fatra,

Suhaib

et al. 2023

ATH

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“…Religious education in North Cyprus is mandatory in primary and lower secondary schools but not in high (upper secondary) schools. The place and content of RE in state schools is a source of conflict both in the Turkish Cypriot North and the Greek Cypriot South (Zembylas and Loukaidis 2018;Latif 2019). Against this background, this article examines how religious education is organized in Cypriot state schools, and to what extent this may lead to an infringement of the freedom of religion and freedom of education.…”

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Dilemmas of Religious Education, Freedom of Religion and Education in Cyprus

Latif

2022

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The boundaries between secularism, democracy, pluralism, and religious diversity cannot easily be demarcated. Bringing democratic and secular values together with religious pluralism, accommodating different religious communities, and acknowledging individual rights is a great challenge for many societies. In parallel, religious education (RE) in state schools has been a controversial and unresolved issue. On both sides of Cyprus, RE is organized in a mono-confessional way: while the Christian Orthodox content of RE is linked with Greek national identity in the Greek Cypriot South, Sunni Islamic RE is linked with the Turkish national identity in the Turkish Cypriot North. On both sides of the island, the compulsory and mono-confessional characters of RE, as well as the national curricula and textbooks that are used, are a source of conflict. Within this context, this article explores the way RE (Orthodox Christian, Sunni Islamic) is organized in Cyprus and to what extent this may lead to an infringement of the freedom of religion and freedom of education.

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Religious influences on the growth of literacy practice

Sarroub

Schroeder

2023

International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition)

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Considering religious education in context: politics, reform and debates among Turkish Cypriots

Cited by 5 publications

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Textbook assessment and religious education efforts: how to achieve religious moderation in schools?

Textbook assessment and religious education efforts: how to achieve religious moderation in schools?

Dilemmas of Religious Education, Freedom of Religion and Education in Cyprus

Religious influences on the growth of literacy practice

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