The Necessity for a Contextual Approach in the Methodology of Religious School Textbook Analysis: A Case Study on the Basis of the Theme Islam

• Autores: Jan Van Wiele
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 37, Nº. 2, 2001, págs. 369-390
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article I will focus, from an non-naive empirical viewpoint, on the problem of the methodology of religious school textbook analysis in the history of pedagogical mentality. As a starting point, one may state that in the field of empirical-historical analysis of religious school textbooks, there has not yet been anything that adequately addresses all the methodological problems arising from such an analysis. Here, I will provide an overview of the methods that are used in the domain of religious school textbook analysis, in order to investigate the pros and cons of the methods under consideration. What emerges is a contextual approach as the only adequate solution for the hermeneutical problems