Jødisk mangfold i norske KRLE-lærebøker?

Authors

  • Tyson Herberger Stipendiat, Høgskolen i Innlandet
  • Anders Aschim Professor, Høgskolen i Innlandet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/pri.8725

Abstract

To what extent do Norwegian RE textbooks present internal diversities within Judaism? This article looks at the presentation of Jews and Judaism in three widely used textbooks in Norwegian lower secondary schools, with a focus on representation, as defined in Robert Jackson’s interpretive approach to RE teaching. Even though internal diversity to some extent is explicitly thematized in the books, we find that certain groups dominate representation of Judaism in the texts and illustrations. The concepts orthocentrism and ashkenormativity are utilized to characterize representations that give hegemonic positions to Orthodox and Ashkenazi Judaism.

Keywords: Judaism, diversity, RE, textbooks, lower secondary school

Published

2021-04-08

Issue

Section

Forskning