An Alternative Model for Islamic Religious Education: Critical Religious Education

Abstract

Approach Critical Religious Education has been developed by Andrew Wright in the UK. According to this approach, religious education should aim at pursuing ‘truth’ and cultivating ‘truthfulness’. Critical Religious Education is grounded on the three premises of the Philosophy of Critical Realism: ontological realism, epistemic relativism and judgemental rationality. Furthermore, this approach adopts the Variation Theory as a learning theory. In Critical Religious Education, the primary aim of religious education is to develop learners’ religious literacy by providing them with rational, critical and reflective thinking skills, thus helping them to make sense of their faith identity as well as those of other religious and secular worldviews in the modern world. Although being developed in a Western-liberal society, this approach is claimed also to be applied into confessional contexts. This article includes a literature review examining, first, the theological, philosophical and pedagogical basis of Critical Religious Education, then, its contributions to Islamic Religious Education

Keywords

• Critical Religious Education, Critical Realism, Variation Theory, Truth Claims

İslam din eğitimi için alternatif bir model: eleştirel din eğitimi yaklaşımı

Abstract

Eleştirel Din Eğitimi yaklaşımı Andrew Wright tarafından İngiltere’de geliştirilen pedagojik bir din eğitimi yaklaşımıdır. Bu yaklaşım fenomenolojik ve yapılandırmacı din eğitimi yaklaşımlarını eleştirerek din eğitimin temelinde ‘hakikati arama’ ve ‘hakikat üzere yaşama’ ideallerinin olması gerektiğini ileri sürer. Eleştirel Din Eğitimi, Eleştirel Realizm felsefesinin ontolojik realizm, epistemik rölativizm ve yargısal rasyonalite prensipleri üzerine temellendirilmiştir. Ayrıca bir öğrenme teorisi olarak Değişkenlik Teorisi benimsenmektedir. Din öğretiminde temel amaç, öğrencilere akılcı, eleştirel ve yansıtıcı düşünme becerileri kazandırarak onların dini okuryazarlık geliştirmeleri, böylece modern dünyada kendi inançları ve farklı dini ve seküler dünya görüşlerini anlamlandırabilmeleri olarak belirlenmiştir. Eleştirel Din Eğitiminin liberal eğitim sistemleri dışında, bir din veya mezhep odaklı din eğitimi sistemlerine de uygulanabileceği ileri sürülmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı Eleştirel Din Eğitimi yaklaşımının İslam Din Eğitimi’nde öğretim ve öğrenmenin geliştirilmesindeki rolünü incelemektir. Çalışma, Eleştirel Din Eğitimi’nin teolojik, felsefi ve pedagojik temellerini, sonrasında da bu yaklaşımın İslam Din Eğitimi’ne yansımalarını merkeze alan alan bir literatür araştırmasını içermektedir

Keywords

• Eleştirel Din Eğitimi, Eleştirel Realizm, Değişkenlik Teorisi, Hakikat

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