Martha Shaw Martha Shaw

Worldview Literacy: Understanding as reflexive encounter

I think of worldview literacy, not as an aim of RE as such, but as a practice that should be part of RE. I use the term ‘praxis’, a cycle of reflection and action, to describe this process and see it as having three key elements or foci; interpretability, reflexivity and encounter. Taken together (and I would argue they are inseparable) these foci provide a framework for a transformational process of understanding that foregrounds the relationship between content and learner.

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