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.
