Soraps, second teacher training session: the feedbacks form teachers and partners
Several participants from the second teacher training session have shared his/her feedback about the experience:
Symposium Prejudices, hot topics, teaching about religions: European answers
International Symposium organized by IESR in Paris (France) with the support of the teams involved in the SORAPS European project, co-funded by the Erasmus + Program of the European Union. The main topics will be prejudices about religions in schools, and teaching about religions in order to deal with hot topics in the classroom. The symposium will be Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2019. Check the full programme and complete the registration on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-prejuges-questions-vives-enseignement-des-faits-religieux-53862639605 Click on the picture to download the flyer.
Identity by Massimo Raveri
An interesting article by Professor Massimo Raveri, Cà Foscari University of Venice, about identity: Every culture forms a complex, always dynamic, system, which lives on a deep tension between phases of opening and closure to other cultures. On the one hand, there are phases of coherence, where symbolic and regulatory structures tend to agree with foundational choices and traditional values. On the other hand, there are phases of transformation and divergence from the views of the past. On the one side, this is due to those endogenous factors - such as the generational turnover, the economic dynamics of redistribution of wealth, the mobility of the social power - which generate new ideas and different values. On the other side, there are exogenous factors – such as immigration, or colonial rule…
Interview by Felix Petzold about prejudices and stereotypes in religion
Here we have an interview by Felix Petzold, Chair of Didactics of History at University of Augsburg, about prejudices and stereotypes in religion: Mr. Petzold, are religion-related stereotypes a contemporary problem? No, religion-related stereotyping is far from a sole contemporary phenomenon. Stereotypes, as they appear today, have mostly grown historically. Humanity uses stereotyping throughout its existence in order to 'navigate' in a confusing and complex world. This process is thus a simplyfing strategy. But that’s not all. By stabilizing the results outwards and inwards on both an individual and collective level, stereotypes accomplish the formation and stabilization of identity through the construction of alterity. This describes one of their essential functions then and now. They are (hi)story educators. How do you approach stereotypes from your perspective as a specialis, including…
“Study of religions against prejudices & stereotypes”: Conferences on the SORAPS Project
In the school year 2018/2019, two meetings have been scheduled in order to introduce students and teachers to the SORAPS Project. “Marco Foscarini” High School in Venice (Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 4942) hosts both the meetings open to all those who are willing to participate. The first meeting took place on 12 September and the second one will be implemented on 4 December. The agenda remains unchanged for both the days in order to let those students and teachers who have an interest in it decide when participate. The aim of these two sessions is not only to present the entire SORAPS Project and its first outcomes in order to involve other teachers both within and outside the School, but also to share the ideas, themes and arguments which lie…