Starting from a description of the worldviews of Dutch youths, this article argues that there is a growing tension between the aims pursued in religious education in school and the predominantly secular outlook on life of present-day youths. It is shown, that one of the reasons for this tension is the fact that religious education is a confessional subject in the Netherlands which is only part of the curriculum in religiously affiliated schools. Governing bodies of religiously affiliated schools and religious pedagogues are aware of this growing tension and have responded to it by transforming religious education into worldview formation. Thus the aim of religious education is no longer to socialise students in a religious tradition, but to help them develop a religious or secular worldview of their own. But also this new approach does not resolve this tension, because it still assumes a personal interest in religion and worldview among the young. The article, therefore, argues for a more radical reformulation of the aim of religious education in strictly cognitive terms.

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Theo-Web [Elektronische Ressource]; 2013/1 Zeitschrift für Religionspädagogik (2013)

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Serie / Reihe: Theo-Web

Personen: Vermeer, Paul

Schlagwörter: Jugendlicher Religion Religiöse Erziehung Religiöse Bildung Niederlande Unterrichtsentwicklung Konfessioneller Religionsunterricht Religiöse Indifferenz