This article describes the way in which religious education (RE) has been organised in
Flanders and Belgium, and gives attention to the problems and challenges that arise these …

Since the 1970s multiculturalist policies that recognize and accommodate ethnocultural
diversity have been implemented across western democracies. However, the tide seems to …

Muslims are now the second largest religious group in almost all Western countries and a
large majority of Muslim citizens are children who attend schools. However teachers' …

Patrick Loobuyck (Bruges, 1974) is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at the University of
Antwerp and guest Professor at Ghent University. His research focuses on multiculturalism …

Many European societies are characterised by increasing forms of secularisation and
religious diversity. This results in a paradigm shift with regard to religious education. For a …

Multiculturalism as an official policy strategy has recently come in for significant criticism in a
number of Western European countries. A key criticism is that multicultural policies …

During the last decades, the concept of interculturalism has increasingly been used in the
philosophical, political and public debates on diversity issues. Especially as an answer to …

In this article, I will introduce and discuss the possibility and desirability of 'multicultural
measures'–specific group-based measures intended to benefit ethnic, religious or cultural …

A common current refrain laments that multiculturalism has failed as a policy model and that
it should be replaced by interculturalism. In this article, we present a critical analysis of the …

Over recent decades, there has been a shift in several western nations from confessional to
non-confessional religious education. This 'paradigm shift'(Franken and Loobuyck 2011) is …