RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SECULAR EDUCATION: A DIALOGUE

Authors

  • Donald Weeren Saint Mary's University

Abstract

The religious conflicts of the past have left educational systems in the western world frozen into various attitudes, attitudes that seem incapable of accommodating the inescapable involvement of everyone in education with issues of right and wrong. That there is a necessary form of knowledge that is distinctively religious, though generally acknowledged by private individuals, is generally rejected in public educational practice. The present alternatives of indoctrination and near-total neglect are equally unacceptable; and yet the path between them is fraught with all manner of ancient anxieties and deep distrust. The participants in the dialogue that Donald Weeren has imagined nevertheless find their way gently a good distance along that path, stepping with delicacy, frankness, and a realistic understanding of the perils involved, towards the beginning of a solution that is surely long overdue.

Author Biography

Donald Weeren, Saint Mary's University

For Donald Weeren, religious and moral education has been a recurring theme, from his earliest recollections of the convent boarding school in Wales where his family found a safe haven in World War II, to his present experiences as a teacher educator (at Saint Mary's University), adult education consultant, husband, father of three children, church member, and Haligonian.

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Published

1979-04-01

How to Cite

Weeren, D. (1979). RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SECULAR EDUCATION: A DIALOGUE. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 14(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7278

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Vol. 14 No. 002 (1979)

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