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- Title
Education and the Religious.
- Authors
Vandenberg, Donald
- Abstract
This article focuses on education for the religious aspect of human existence. An education for the religious aspect of human existence should have a large component of arts, crafts, trades, sports, and outdoor education in the school curriculum to enable the young to become at home in and among the natural things in the world within their perceptual horizons. Whatever the aim of a particular religion may be, the aim of educating in regard to it would be to develop piety, that is, dutifulness regarding its practices and obligations or devotion. Schools should stop undermining parental efforts to inculcate the code of premarital chastity with the excuse that many adolescents are already sexually active and so forth. If education for the religious is helping the young become at home in the universe through legitimate cognitive means, the question is what these means can be after the end of cosmology. An education for the religious should help the young find themselves at home in the natural world and able to accept the earth as the place where one lives.
- Subjects
EDUCATION; HUMAN beings; SPIRITUAL life; PIETY; DEVOTION; METAPHYSICAL cosmology
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 89, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708900102