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Discursive Norms and Incentives for Equipping Students with Religion and Worldview Literacy in Swedish Preschool Teacher Education Policy
Department of Educational Studies, Karlstad University, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9916-6179
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. Department of Educational Work, University of Borås, 501 90 Borås, Sweden. (LADINECE, ECE, SPLITT)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9836-1909
Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6085-576X
2023 (English)In: Religions, E-ISSN 2077-1444, Vol. 14, no 9, p. 1-15, article id 1194Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The increasing societal diversity of religions and worldviews (R&W) in Swedish preschools affects what competencies today’s preschool teachers need and what needs to be taught in Swedish Preschool Teacher Education (PTE). The study aims to investigate the content and discursive norms regarding religion and worldviews in Swedish PTEs on a national policy level and contribute to knowledge in the research field of Religious Studies and Higher Education. The PTE curricula of all the twenty Higher Education institutions offering PTE in Sweden in 2022 are investigated using text-centred discourse analysis, together with a theoretical and analytical tool for analyzing different dimensions of the PTEs and the potential for them to function as socially sustainable communities of care. The results show that even though there might be implicit incentives for teaching about R&W, all but one of the educational curricula of the twenty PTEs in Sweden lack explicit mention of ‘religion’. Based on the results, we can see that at a national policy level, the content of the educational curricula reproduces liberal secular and humanist worldviews as norms for the PTEs. There is also a lack of explicit policy-related incentives for the PTEs to promote social sustainability regarding equipping students with proper knowledge and skills for developing care-centered and norm-critical R&W literacy. 

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2023. Vol. 14, no 9, p. 1-15, article id 1194
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policy, preschool teacher education, religion, religion and worldview literacy, social sustainability, worldviews
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Didactics
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Teacher Education and Education Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-30634DOI: 10.3390/rel14091194ISI: 001077970200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172191642OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-30634DiVA, id: diva2:1806163
Available from: 2023-10-19 Created: 2023-10-19 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved

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