Guidelines for Teaching Religion to Enhance Global Citizenship: Important Lessons for Social Studies Teachers
Keywords:
Teaching Religion, Global Citizenship, Social Studies, Learning ManagementAbstract
This article focuses on explaining global citizenship, which is an important part of being aware and understanding each other well in living together in peace. Global citizenship is an important key to unlocking the long-standing conflicts between different perspectives. This is because global citizenship focuses on making each person aware of their part as a common human being together in this world. Global citizenship therefore has its own power, and create continuity in solving various problems at the development level. Global citizenship has been brought into the education system to continue and cultivate global citizenship among individuals. At the educational level, aiming for global citizenship by promoting such conditions focuses on creating a social study curriculum that is consistent with the goals of global citizenship. This article proposes guidelines for teaching religion for social studies teachers to promote global citizenship. The focus is on the framework for developing global citizenship: 1) creating knowledge and understanding of religious and cultural diversity, 2) teaching critical skills from an existing standpoint to other beliefs, and 3) teaching religion to Understanding values and having a positive attitude Teaching religious content for social studies teachers is a part of creating good global citizenship.
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