Religious Education as a 21st Century Practice: A Quantitative Study of the Perceptions of Teachers About New Learning Skills

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Abstract

This study compares quantitatively the perceptions of Finnish pre-service and in-service RE teachers about the future skills needed in the context of RE. In addition, the dimensions of knowledge, skills, and attitudes relation to future skills were explored. The data consists of questionnaires (N = 157) collected from RE student teachers (n = 74) and RE teachers (n = 83). Three groups of respondents were formed: students, teachers, and teachers in the induction phase. There were compared the perceptions of the three groups about different 21st century skills and knowledge, skills and attitudes in relation to 21st century skills. The comparisons looked at the means and standard deviations between the groups.

Authors

• Tuuli Lipiäinen, University of Helsinki

• Martin Ubani, University of Eastern Finland

• Kaisa Viinikka, University of Eastern Finland

• Arto Juha Viljami Kallioniemi, University of Helsinki