Re-imagining practice: How can a community based model of anti-sectarianism, supported through faith based values, help in the development of new anti-sectarian approaches in Scottish education?

Friend, Beverley Jane (2022) Re-imagining practice: How can a community based model of anti-sectarianism, supported through faith based values, help in the development of new anti-sectarian approaches in Scottish education? DPT thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

This thesis presents an alternative model of anti-sectarianism which re-imagines and challenges traditional institutional pedagogical anti-sectarian approaches, and which can be supported through faith based values.

Through a feminist ethnographic methodology, the research shows that the current educational approaches adopted to address sectarianism are problematic through constraining contextual limitations and authoritarian framing. A new progressive model is recommended in this thesis which is able to be adapted and utilised by educational practitioners and other groups connected to the community in which anti-sectarianism takes place.

The new approach, involving a flexible route map of five immersive steps, requires a rethinking of current methods and a commitment to long term support from those practitioners invested in anti-sectarianism. The thesis shows that the new model’s strength is dependent upon an ethical approach which emerged from a connected theological analysis. This approach is highly supportive of an engaged transformative anti-sectarian pursuit, framed by a duty of care that values and seeks to protect all those involved.

• Item Type: Thesis (DPT)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology; B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations
• Colleges/Schools: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > Theology and Religious Studies
• Supervisor's Name: Walton, Professor Heather and McKinney, Stephen
• Date of Award: 2022
• Depositing User: Theses Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:2022-83185
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2022 16:00
• Last Modified: 13 Oct 2022 16:02
• Thesis DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.83185
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/83185