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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
This paper argues in favour of a narrative vision for philosophy of education in a postmodern context. I argue that while the nihilistic strand of postmodernity might continue to challenge the viability of religious discourse in education(al) environments, postmodernity also re-opens the world towards its pre-rational foundations by means of the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Postmodernism, Ethics, Narration
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
This paper explores Anatheism as a pedagogically justifiable theory for teaching our learners how to acquire new memories about life- and worldview diversity, as well as religious diversity, and also how to accompany each other so that whosoever wants to, may return home to a more credible God after they might have started to doubt the credibility…
Descriptors: World Views, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Religion
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
This paper is a sequel to the paper which I delivered at last year's BCES conference in Sofia. Making use of hermeneutic phenomenology and constructive interpretivism as methodological apparatus, I challenge the pedagogic justifiability of the fashionable notion of religious tolerance. I suggest that we need, instead, to reflect "de…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Social Justice, Cultural Pluralism, Religion
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
Drawing on the methodological framework of conversational analysis, this paper explores aspects of multilogical participation in pedagogically safe spaces with regard to religious respect and hospitality as life skill. I argue that these spaces should be conceived of as pedagogically justifiable and educationally guaranteed sanctuaries of and for…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Religion, Daily Living Skills, Discourse Analysis
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
Making use of hermeneutic phenomenology and morality critique as methodological navigation points, this paper challenges the phantasmatic prestige and power of normative orders and the education systems that are designed to keep them alive. It is suggested that what education needs is not morals and ethics, but a pedagogy of discernment that will…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Comparative Education, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This paper investigates religion education (RE) in Mexico and Thailand -- two countries from different parts of the world with vastly different populations and cultures. We wanted to learn whether they had tackled similar problems regarding the provision of RE in their schools, particularly with respect to the matter of tolerance in diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Social Attitudes, Individual Differences
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van der Walt, Johannes L.; Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
For the last five years the authors have been involved in a research project entitled "Creating Diagogic Space." The project aims at determining to which extent conditions such as the presence/absence of social justice, the creation/lack of social and human capital, respect/non-recognition of human rights, the (non-) recognition of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Religious Factors, Religion, Holistic Approach