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Mission |
To provide background information and classroom materials related to teaching about religion in public schools in support of pluralism, acknowleding that public schools are for students of all worldviews, whether religious or nonreligious, and that public school teachers, as professionals, need to exercise a scrupulous neutrality regarding religion. |
Teaching About Religion |
Audiences |
This website is designed to serve professional educators (teachers, administrators, college professors, and curriculum developers) especially in the areas of teaching about religion in history, social studies, and religious studies. The emphasis is on planning and conducting instruction within U.S. public schools, but site content may also interest others in private schools or home schooling. |
Features |
The site offers educational information in the form of a worldview sampler, background information on a broad range of critical concepts (e.g. religious liberty, teaching about religion and the nonreligious worldview, civic responsibilities), links to teaching materials such as free lesson plans, position statements, historical information and source material, and resources of additional interest to public school educators, especially in the areas of social science and history. |
in support of civic pluralism |
Contemporary Issue |
Many resources are available for understanding the controversy over the social movement to include “Intelligent Design” in public school science classes. To many, the controversy appears to involve two competing science concepts. Or worse, two competing belief systems. That is not the situation, however. So, what is it? |