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On the Edge: A Biographical Approach to Pedagogical Theory Development

The ‘making of’ Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education and Citizenship Education

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In this contribution, at the start of a volume of biographical narratives of leading scholars in the field of the pedagogy of religion and citizenship – or as Siebren Miedema prefers to call it: the pedagogy of religious citizenship – I will focus on the concept of narrativity and the role of stories in the biography and the development of a personal and professional identity. In her dissertation Swennen quotes Holland et al.

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Avest, I.t. (2012). On the Edge: A Biographical Approach to Pedagogical Theory Development. In: Avest, I.t. (eds) On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-175-7_1

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