Challenging Life: Existential Questions as a Resource for Education (Religious Diversity and Education in Europe) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jari Ristiniemi, Professor, University of Gävle, Sweden

Geir Skeie is Professor in Religious Education at University of Stavanger and guest professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim. His research includes both empirical and theoretical contributions with a particular interest in the challenges and possibilities for religious education raised by a diverse socio-cultural context. In recent years, he has also written about the relationship between religious education and other school subjects. He has had a leading role in several national and international research projects, mainly investigating religion and education.

Karin Sporre is Professor in Educational Work at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. At the Department of Applied Educational Science she leads the research group RECEUM, Research in Early Childhood Education, Umeå University. Her own research is in the fields of gender, religion, ethics, and existential issues of children. 2015–2018 she is a partner in the research project “What may be learnt in ethics?”, EthiCo.

Oddrun Marie Hovde Bråten, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway

Judith Everington, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK