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Teaching for tolerance and freedom of religion or belief News,
reports and articles |
The following
reports, articles and news items focus on (1) the image of the external and
internal others in religion, civics and history textbooks, (2) current debates
about religion in school, and (3) the issue of (in)tolerance education in
general.
As the list
only contains items and pieces of information that are available on the web, it
should not be taken as a comprehensive bibliography.
Please note: The items are of different origin and
quality and the analyses that are given may be biased. The inclusion of any
particular item does not indicate positions taken by the Oslo Coalition.
Regarding Palestine/Israel,
see separate list.
See also relevant news items listed on a web
page of the Georg Eckert Institute for International
Textbook Research:
The
international press on textbook and curricula issues
2005
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SAUDI ARABIA: The History We Don’t
Know (on history teaching in
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o Ofsted Muslim schools row goes on (BBC News 28-01-05)
2004
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THE ARAB WORLD/EUROPE:
Re-writing
the textbooks (Al-Ahram 16.12.04)
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NORWAY UN’s
Human Rights Committee criticises the “partial exemption” arrangements in the
Norwegian KRL subject (UNHRC November 2004)
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NORWAY/MOROCCO Morocco
takes interest in Norwegian model for religious education (Christian
Democratic Party Press Release 05.10.04)
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SAUDI ARABIA Saudi moves to
reform education system (Middle East Online, 07-09-04)
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SERBIA Serb schools told to drop
Darwin (BBC News 07-09-04)
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LEBANON Is
latestversion of national history fit to print?
(The Daily Star, 02-08-04)
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GEORGIA Update regarding the debate on religious education
and freedom of religion (Forum 18 News Service, 23-08-04 – see the
last part of this update)
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PAKISTAN Madressah
incentives scheme to be expanded: Curricula reforms to continue (Dawn,
27-07-04)
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SAUDI ARABIA Saudi
textbooks 'demonise west' (The Guardian 14-07-04)
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EGYPT Religious
education faces new threat
(Aljazeera.Net, 21-06-04)
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UNITED KINGDOM Schools to
teach UK's six main religions (The Independent, 27-04-2004)
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PAKISTAN Letter from Lahore: Hue and cry over curriculum dies down with
a whimper (Gulf News, 26-04-2004)
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Cf. Committee told verses not removed
from curriculum (Dawn, 21-04-2004).
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Cf. Should textbooks be purged of hatred? —Khaled Ahmed’s Urdu
Press Review (Daily Times, 02-04-2004)
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See more relevant links to the
debate about jihad verses and textbook revision in Pakistan, on the web-page of
the Georg
Eckert Insitute > Pakistan
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Cf. Egypt dismisses teachers based on security reports (Gulf News, 25-03-2004)
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Cf. Egypt teaches tolerance. School children to learn to
tolerate other cultures, authorities deny bowing to US pressure (Middle East Online, 16-03-2004)
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(THE MUSLIM WORLD) Does
Islamic education really breed terrorism? (Fatwa by of Sheikh Yusuf
al-Qaradawi, 16-0204)
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JORDAN, KUWAIT, SAUDI
ARABIA Arab
schoolbooks reform face opposition (Al Jazeera.net, January 6, 2004)
2003
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SPAIN Controversy regarding
law passed on Religious Education (IARF Winter 2003/2004)
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NORWAY Report on
religious education in Norway (EFTRE 2003)
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EGYPT, JORDAN, PALESTINE Wolfram
Reiss: Die Juden
im islamischen Religionsunterricht. Ein Vergleich ägyptischer, jordanischer und
palästinensischer Schulbücher. (Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen
Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 49, 50, 51 - Dezember 2003)
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Cf. Religious minorities
concerned by "voluntary" 'Religion and Culture' classes (Forum 18
News Service, November 19, 2003)
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SOUTH AFRICA Religious
diversity in schools (South Africa Info 9 September 2003)
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Launch Of Religion And
Education Policy (Govt. press release, September 2003)
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Draft Policy on Religion and
Education in South Africa (Ministry of Education, June
2003)
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INDONESIA Indonesia lawmakers pass “all faiths” education bill
(Indonesia House/Reuters/The Jakarta Post 12 June 2003)
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Cf. Education
Bill Symbolic Victory for Muslim Parties (
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Cf. Indonesia's
Education Bill opens Pandora's box (The Straits Times, June 2003)
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BELARUS Despite protests, "anti-sect"
schoolbook to remain (Forum 18
News Service, June 2003)
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2002
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RUSSIA Public
opinion divided over tuition of Orthodox Culture in state schools (ReligioScope, 4. December 2002)
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Cf. Schools
to teach Orthodox Culture (The Moscow Times, November 2002)
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Cf. Ministry of
Education explains questions involved in teaching Orthodox Culture in
school (The Russian Orthodox Church, February 2003)
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Cf. Ministry of Education
document on “The Foundations of Orthodox Culture” (in Russian)
2001
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UNITED NATIONS Kofi Annan:
Intolerance is taught and can be
untaught (UN Press Release, November 2001)
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GERMANY, TURKEY, IRAN,
EGYPT, PALESTINE, JORDAN Wolfram
Reiss: Zum
besseren Verständnis der Kulturen und Religionen erziehen. Revision der
Darstellung des Islams und des Christentums in der Schule dringend notwendig.
Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 43, 23. Oktober 2001, pp.
6-12)
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Cf. Thomas
Friedman: Memo from George W. Bush to Sheikh Saleh
al-Shaikh, Minister of Islamic Affairs (from New
York Times, Dec. 12, 2001)
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Cf. Khaled
al-Maeena: Memo from the Arab News to the New York
Times (Abu Saleh Articles)
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Cf. Barbara
Walters: Mosques and Malls. A Rare Inside Look at Saudi Arabia (including
references to hostile images in school education, ABC News March 29, 2002)
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UNITED NATIONS Intolerance in education (United
Nations OnLine, September 2001)
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> 2000
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CANADA (QUEBEC) Bill
118: An Act to amend various legislative provisions respecting education as
regards confessional matters (May-June 2000)
o
Cf. a Protestant response: Religious education – an
important choice (with a summary of Bill 118’s implications)
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Cf. The
Catholic Committee’s response
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Cf. The Center for Civic Education > Egypt (The Center for Civic Education, California, 1998)
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