EDER 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Super Bowl, Culturally Relevant Teaching, Ethnomathematics
4 Jun 2018
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What is Religious Literacy?
Religious literacy entails the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of
religion and social/political/cultural life through multiple lenses. Specifically, a religiously
literate person will possess 1) a basic understanding of the history, central texts (where
applicable), beliefs, practices and contemporary manifestations of several of the world's religious
traditions as they arose out of and continue to be shaped by particular social, historical and
cultural contexts; and 2) the ability to discern and explore the religious dimensions of political,
social and cultural expressions across time and place. (Moore, 2014)
The Starter Pack-Religious Literacy
-Ability to Discern
-Analytical Skills
-Explore Religion from all angles
--a lot of people think that ERC is just religious education but it’s not
-Basic Understanding
-Explore Religious Dimensions
Ethno-mathematics
-can math be culturally limiting
-math can be taught differently throughout the world
Skills
Empathy
Adaptable
Openness
Creative
Impartiality
CRT (Culturally relevant teaching)
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Document Summary
Religious literacy entails the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of religion and social/political/cultural life through multiple lenses. -a lot of people think that erc is just religious education but it"s not. Math can be taught differently throughout the world. Basic and organic content: religious diversity, history, non-religious traditions, world views, language, political, multi view, text. Knowledge of new movements - contemporary religious ideas. -it"s good to be religiously literate in your own religion as well. -we need to find the door that best suits our entrance (ex. -once you"re comfortable in your base you can branch out to other areas. -look at how you teach and look at your religious angle. We should make it easy for people and make it worldviews. Gather tools to better understand the functions of religion in human affairs. Be discontent with the widespread illiteracy about religion. Meet new people and communities with different world-views.
