In the Flow to Maximal Interreligious Citizenship Education

“Coming Out Religiously!” Religion, the Public Sphere, and Religious Identity Formation

“…These "others" should no longer be perceived as a threat but as an enrichment, and learning to live, to work, to learn, and to play (!) together should be possible and start already in early childhood (see in line with this plea Miedema 2000;Miedema and Ter Avest 2011).…”

“…Elsewhere Ter Avest and I have extensively dealt with the promising co-operation between schools of different denominations in the "Bijlmer" district in the south-east part of the city of Amsterdam (Miedema and Ter Avest 2011). Here three primary schools belonging to different denominations-that is a state school, an Islamic school, and an open Christian school-practice what they preach and preach what they practice: living together in difference.…”

“…This will enable students to develop their own point of view in matters of religion and worldview in the context of plurality via encounter and dialogue. (Parts of this section have been addressed in a brief or somewhat different form in Ter Avest 2011 andMiedema 2012a;2012b).…”

Onderwijs, levensbeschouwing en het publiek domein. Inleiding op het themanummer

“…Vanaf 2000 heeft Miedema nationaal en internationaal een (godsdienst-) pedagogisch pleidooi gevoerd om levensbeschouwelijke vorming ook met burgerschapsvorming te verbinden (Miedema, 2002) onder de noemer 'levensbeschouwelijke burgerschapsvorming' (Miedema, 2006a(Miedema, , 2006b(Miedema, , 2010Miedema & Ter Avest, 2011). Daarnaast heeft hij gepleit voor levensbeschouwelijke vorming voor alle leerlingen op alle scholen, openbaar en bijzonder (Miedema, 2000), en bij herhaling gewezen op de belemmeringen die in dezen uitgaan van het duale Nederlandse onderwijsstelsel van (Bron, 2006).…”

Learning to Live with Religious Plurality in Personhood Formation

“…Elsewhere, we have extensively dealt with the promising co-operations between schools of different denominations in the "Bijlmer" district in the south-east part of the city of Amsterdam (Miedema and Ter Avest 2011). Here three primary schools belonging to different denominations-that is, a state school, an Islamic school, and an open Christian school, practice what they preach and preach what they practice: living together in difference.…”