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Commitment of the Teacher as a Necessary Condition of Teaching Religion Successfully (Comment on Dr Lloyd's Paper)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Eilert Herms
Eilert Herms
Affiliation:
University of Munich, Germany
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Dr Lloyd maintains that a teacher's commitment is not only compatible with but a necessary condition for successfully teaching religious understanding within the system of public education. As I am in sympathy with this thesis, I do not wish to argue against it but to add some further interpretation of it. Lloyd's thesis deals with a certain process of communication, specified in two directions: first as to its subject (‘religious understanding’), and secondly as to its context (the system of public education). His thesis contains two points: (1) the kind of communciation he has in mind is at least possible and (2) the necessary condition for its success is the commitment of the teacher.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 261 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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References

page 262 note 1 Pragmatics of Human Communication. A Study of Intersectional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes (New York, 1967).Google Scholar