ABSTRACT

This article considers the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE 2018) and its controversial conclusion that the law should require religious education to include teaching about non-religious worldviews alongside religions, presumably in equal measure. Attention is given both to Trevor Cooling’s recent defence of CoRE’s proposals against already expressed criticisms and to additional criticisms, that of the abstract nature of a worldview as a highly ramified, philosophical concept, which is educationally ill-suited to the interests and intellectual capabilities of many pupils, and that of the failure of the proposals to indicate in what ways they overcome current systemic weaknesses. It is concluded that religious education should not be reconceptualised as the study of religious and non-religious worldviews nor should it adopt a framework that construes religions primarily as worldviews.

摘要

本文考虑了宗教教育委员会最终报告 (CoRE 2018) 的建议及其有争议的结论，即法律应要求宗教教育在宗教之外包括关于非宗教世界观的教学，大概是同等程度的。既关注 Trevor Cooling 最近对 CoRE 提案的辩护，反对已经表达的批评，也关注其他批评，即世界观的抽象本质是一个高度分支的哲学概念，在教育上不适合学生的兴趣和智力能力。许多学生，以及提案未能表明他们以何种方式克服当前的系统性弱点。