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| Reflection
Paper on Science, Religion and Education
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The article “Science, Religion and Education”
raises an extremely important problem of the correlation of
science and religion and their implementation in curriculum.
In fact, this problem is not new and rather reflects the current
situation than poses some new problems. At the same time,
it is necessary to agree that the view the author’s
views the problem of correlation of science and religion in
relation to education is quite original and noteworthy.
First of all, it should be said that the author reasonably
argues that nowadays there exists a strong opposition between
science and religion and such the opposition influences dramatically
the sphere of education which is actually based on scientific
views. This leads to the situation when religions are studied
only in historical terms while the current religious doctrines,
beliefs, philosophies are practically ignored because of the
dominance of science in education.
The author underlines that there are four possible relationships
between science and religion in education that vary from the
conflicts between religion and science when either the former
or the latter is considered to be the only absolute truth
to the independent relationship between the two or even their
integration when science and religion mutually enrich each
other.
Obviously, it is necessary to agree with the author that religions
cannot be ignored in the process of education but they should
be rather viewed critically. This article is really useful
for educators since it provides the opportunity to start finding
the possibly most efficient relationship between religion
and science and the idea of their integration is quite noteworthy
since the role of religions in moral and ethical education
can hardly be underestimated.
Bibliography:
1. Nord, W. A. “Science, Religion, and Education”,
Phi Delta Kappan, Sep. 1999, v81 i1 p28.
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