COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERN APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6248 MODERN APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YUSUF CEYLAN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

The objectives of this course are: to find and build the best suitable way of teaching that fulfils all needs of pupils in religious education by researching new approaches in religious education around the world and finding common points of them while considering the recent developments in the world.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will find the opportunity to analyze the new developments in educaiton and religious education by getting know them in close
2   They will understand in deep the relation between classical religious educational practices and modern religious educational approaches
3   They will be able to deep analyze in problems and their solutions in religious education
4   They will learn pros and cons religious educational approaches in practice

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of the course
2 Modern approaches in education and religious education..
3 Doctrinal approach and its institutional perspectives
4 Doctrinal religious education and its main principles
5 Some critics against doctrinal religious education.
6 Different trends in doctrinal religious education
7 An approach of non-confessional religious education and its institutional perspectives
8 Non-confessional religious education and its basic quailities
9 Some critics against the non-confessional religious education approach
10 Inter-denominational religious education and its main principles
11 Interrogative method
12 Interreligious education
13 Phenomenological religious education
14 Comparing the new approaches in religious education

Recomended or Required Reading

Din Öğretiminin Kuramsal Temelleri , Uluslar Arası Din Eğitimi Sempozyumu
(20 21 Kasım 1997) Ankara 1999.
SERINSU, Ahmet Nedim, Kur an Nedir, Şule Yay., 1997.
Kur an ve Insanın Anlam Arayışı Uluslar arası Din Eğitimi Sempozyumu ( 20
21 Kasım 1997), Ankara 1999.
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.
Ingiltere de Din Öğretiminin Kişilik Gelişimine Katkısı Uluslar Arası Din
Eğitimi Sempozyumu (20 21 Kasım 1997), Ankara 1999.
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.
SÖNMEZ, Veysel, Öğretmen El Kitabı, (9. Baskı) Anı Yayıncılık, Ankara 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students' achievements are calculated from the results of mid-term exam, homework assignments, final exam and active participation to the lectures.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yusuf.ceylan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555

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