One of the big challenges for Catholic education in the Netherlands results from the coming of so many Muslims in our country. Even in Catholic schools the number of Muslim pupils is growing, not only in the big cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam in the western part of the country, but even in the smaller towns and villages elsewhere. This development is the source of big discussions—and tensions—in our society about integration and segregation, especially about the possible segregative effects of faith-based schools. From inside the developments in religious education on the Catholic side we meet a challenge with the same content. Many people there call for a form of “multireligious” or “interreligious” learning. That evokes the question, how we can legitimate that in Catholic schools? How is interreligious learning unifi able with the Catholic identity of Catholic schools?
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de Jong, A. (2007). Towards a SubParticipative Identity: Catholic Education in the Netherlands in Search of a New Approach. In: Grace, G., O’Keefe, J. (eds) International Handbook of Catholic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5776-2_20
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