COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NEW APPROACHES IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IDA 4016 NEW APPROACHES IN 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

The aim of this course is gaining the best results of studying to prepare the most suitable syllabus for conditions of our country, answering the needs of students and public, by clarifying the new approaches of education paralleled with other developments of education in the world.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will find the possibility to evaluate the new developments in education and religious education by learning them.
2   They will deeply understand the relation between two disciplines that traditional religious education and modern religious education.
3   They will be able to analyse deeply in some issues and problems of religious education.
4   They will learn the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches of religious education.
5   While religious education reaches individuals via society, they will be able to take objective and constructive attitude by having realization of difference between groups and individuals.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Modern approaches in education and religious education.
2 Doctrinal approach and its theoretical framework.
3 Doctrinal religious education and its basic features.
4 Critics towards Doctrinal religious education.
5 Different tendencies in doctrinal religious education.
6 Off-denominational approach to religious education and its framework.
7 Off-denominational religious education and its features
8 Mid-term exam
9 Critics to Off-denominational religious education
10 Off-denominational religious education and its features
11 Questionable method
12 Inter-religious education
13 Phenomenological religious education
14 Comparing the new methods in religious education
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Din Öğretiminin Kuramsal Temelleri , Uluslar Arası Din Eğitimi Sempozyumu
(20 21 Kasım 1997) Ankara 1999.
2. SERINSU, Ahmet Nedim, Kur an Nedir, Şule Yay., 1997.
3. Kur an ve Insanın Anlam Arayışı Uluslar arası Din Eğitimi Sempozyumu ( 20
21 Kasım 1997), Ankara 1999.
4. SHEPHERD, John, Fenomonolojik Bakış Açısı: Eleştirel Anlamda Sorgulayıcı Din
Eğitimi , Din Öğretiminde Yeni Yöntem Arayışları Uluslararası Sempozyum
Bildiri ve Tartışmalar, 28 30 Mart 2001, MEB Yay. Ankara 2003.
5. Ingiltere de Din Öğretiminin Kişilik Gelişimine Katkısı Uluslar Arası Din
Eğitimi Sempozyumu (20 21 Kasım 1997), Ankara 1999.
5. Islam ve Din Eğitimi (Mezhebe Dayalı Olmayan Yaklaşım) , I.Din Öğretimi ve
Din Hizmetleri Semineri (8 10 Nisan 1988), D.I.B. Yay., Ankara 1991.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, questionnaire, exemplify, home work and practice.

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


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)

sukru.keyifli@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.1534
LO.2534
LO.3534
LO.4534
LO.5534