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I N V E S T I G A T I N G R E L I G I O N

STUDY OF RELIGION FOR SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

Peta Goldburg Principal author

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C o n t e n t s

Top ics

By Patricia Blundell






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By Trevor Jordan

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration on Intolerance and Discrimination based onReligion or Belief

Core

Part I Aboriginal spiritualities and Torres Strait Islander religions 136

The Dreaming

Part II Religion in Australian society 149






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I n t r o d u c t i o n

a range of information related to the topic or core

How to use th is bookInvestigating Religion

chapters are intended as a foundation and enriching

core components should be integrated into topics.

Core components:

Topics:

at the introduction and working through to the

activities are provided in electronic format on the

and strategies used in this book include:






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The inqu iry process

Knowledge andUnderstanding

materials

Evaluative Processes

Research and Communi-cation

presenting information about religious issues and

the unit and topic being studied and the particular

Ethnographic investigations

assessment tasks are completed at various milestone

that before the interview section of the ethnographic

understanding of the phenomenon under investigation

Investigating Religion provides a number of support activities in each of the

The ethnographic investigation ideas provided have

or other sources in which adherents describe or show






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For the student

Framing

Investigating

and investigating and researching issues related to an

Reasoning

Judging

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For the teacherpromotes an educational approach to the teaching of religion and is designed to be available to all students

to the teaching of religion encourage rigorous and

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central to Study of Religion

learner rather than the teacher and describes a process

obtain information that builds knowledge and then

encourages teaching and learning approaches which

perspectives but is distinguished from the routine

Recognition literacy involves learning to recognise

that are used to construct and communicate meaning as well as cultural practices present and central to

Reproductionliteracy involves understanding and producing






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Reflection literacynecessitates an understanding that all social practices

image privilege certain viewpoints and how other choices of visual and verbal resources could construct

effort to discover alternative paths; it connects the

deconstructing the conditions of production butalso with the conditions of interpretation including

Classrooms are places where students learn about

teachers of religion face is providing students with a

reinforces the idea that there are multiple readings

in the lives of their communities helps us to engage






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