Children, adults and spirituality: what's the connection?

We begin this Paper by repeating the question in the title, asking what is the connection between adults, children and spirituality. The connection is narrative. Narrative is how the connection between children, adults and spirituality is both established and maintained. Jean François Lyotard in Le Différend says that narrative has a privilege in the way it assembles diversity. It is a genre that seems to be able to admit all others. Everything, says Marx, has a "his–story" (1983: 228). There is an affinity between the people and the narrative. The popular form of language is the small, de-ritualised narrative. To paraphrase Lyotard, people like to tell stories and, in particular, they like to tell stories about themselves. This is how we as people - as children and adults – express our similarities with other people, and our differences from others. These stories that people tell about their lives and experiences are Lyotard’s "small narratives", the little stories which challenge and define the meta-narratives – the grand stories of ideology and moral prescription

Religious education : a conceptual and interdisciplinary approach for secondary level

El libro analiza los debates surgidos entorno a la enseñanza de la religión y plantea un nuevo enfoque en la educación de la religión no basado en la fe y que se centra en los factores conceptuales y en el desarrollo de una pedagogía clara. El libro se basa en el modelo de aprendizaje 'Living Difference' desarrollado en Hampshire y adoptado en diferentes partes del Reino Unido. Proporciona la base para el desarrollo del pensamiento sobre la enseñanza de la religión, su lugar en el currículo educativo y cómo se puede implantar eficazmente en las escuelas.SCBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]