chapter 7: Religious holidays in nonfiction literature by

"protecting the religious- liberty rights of all students while simultaneously rejecting school endorsement or promotion of religion" (115)

krs236 — 2025-02-24 15:49:02 UTC

recognizing all religions as major worldwide religions

jke26_1 — 2025-02-24 15:49:31 UTC

Freedom of Religion

amd512 — 2025-02-24 15:49:50 UTC

While teaching about the richness and diversity of various religious holidays is acceptable, one must not subscribe to promoting one religion over others as the "correct" way to live and follow

"othering" of non-christian religions

jke26_1 — 2025-02-24 15:50:10 UTC

inclusion of multiple religions, not pushing for a correct one

tml154 — 2025-02-24 15:50:14 UTC

teaching/ acknowledging more than one religions

tml154 — 2025-02-24 15:50:52 UTC

"It does nothing to remove our ignorance of one another and leaves in place the stereotype" of religious persons who are not privileged in main stream society

jrf239 — 2025-02-24 15:50:58 UTC

Inequities

amd512 — 2025-02-24 15:51:08 UTC

While trying to teach about other holidays and religions, some books automatically assume that the majority of readers come from Christian backgrounds, and thus base their stories and explanations around those identities so that they can understand

Studying religions around the world is an important part of public schools' social studies curriculum: building awareness, acceptance, knowledge, etc.

krs236 — 2025-02-24 15:51:53 UTC

scholastic books alluding to implicit perspective that readers would respond positively to the first question in easter, but negatively in the first question in Ramadan

jke26_1 — 2025-02-24 15:51:55 UTC

Phonetic Aids

amd512 — 2025-02-24 15:52:40 UTC

When books about non-Christian holidays have many more phonetic aids over others, it contributes to an "othering" that labels other groups and religions as "foreign"

treating certain religious holidays as "familiar" and "unfamiliar" such as Easter and Ramadan

jke26_1 — 2025-02-24 15:52:53 UTC

"Eck's and Willkie's warning about religion (in)tolernace corespond with the historical acceptance of religious illiteracy across the US...(i.e the lack of knowledge about religions othger than one's own)" (102)

tml154 — 2025-02-24 15:53:14 UTC

Notice certain vocabulary authors use when they are writing about a religion/ religious practices

krs236 — 2025-02-24 15:54:17 UTC

Tolerance

amd512 — 2025-02-24 15:55:47 UTC

In crafting religious tolerance, teachers can invite students to analyze the ways in which books might make assumptions and base their ideas through a lens of religious bias towards one particular religion over another