Critical Thinking and Catholic Religious Education: An Empirical Research Report From the Philippines

• Main Author: Go, Johnny C, SJ
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: critical thinking; Catholic; religious education; epistemology; epistemic cognition; Catholic Studies; Education; Epistemology; Religious Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/education-faculty-pubs/4; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19422539.2018.1492261
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

While critical rationality is an explicit goal of Catholic education, its practice in confessional Catholic religious education can be problematic for epistemological reasons: the prevailing Catholic religious epistemology may not be conducive to critical thinking in the RE classroom. A survey among...