COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IDA 3018 DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To give sufficient information about democracy, secularism and related terms. Students will notice the reflections of them to Religious Education. They will get knowledge about the development of modern education in Western countries and Türkiye. In the lectures, the approaches and models of Religious Education in modern liberal, pluralistic and secular states will be shown

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will be able to define the democracy, secularism and similar terms
2   They will know the developments of democracy, secularism in our country
3   They will grasp the relation between religion and secularism in the current liberal societies
4   They will know the reflections of them to RE in democratic and pluralistic societies
5   They will be able to evaluate some approaches in new pluralistic Religious Education

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions of the terms: Secularism, Democracy, Education, Religious Education
2 The relation of Secularism, and Religious Education
3 Understanding of Democracy in Anglo-Saxon and Latin European Countries
4 The religion and Politics relation in the European Countries
5 The approaches of Religious Education in secular and laic European Countries
6 The development of modern education and democracy
7 Democratic laicism and Religious Education
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The approach of totalitarian laicism towards Religious Education
10 The development of modern education and democracy in the multi-party period
11 The constitutional articles in Türkiye related to laicism, democracy and Religious Education
12 Pluralistic democracy and Religious Education
13 Pluralistic approaches of Religious Education
14 Religious Education, on the issues of Globalization and changing religious understandings
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Mustafa Erdoğan, Liberal Toplum ve Liberal Siyaset, Siyasal yay , Ankara 1998

Recep Kaymakcan, Çokkültürlülük, Eğitim, Kültür ve Din Eğitimi, yay, Dem Istanbul 2006

Will Kymlicka, Çokültürlü Yuttaşlık, Çev. Abdullah Yılmaz. Ayrıntı yay, Istanbul 1998

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

veli.ozturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 69

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1454
LO.2454
LO.3454
LO.4454
LO.5454