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There is an increasing recognition today that young people need to have knowledge about religions and world views in order to live and work in diverse societies. What kind of ‘maps’ are they provided with through religious, values and ethics education? Does education address the challenging existential questions that children and adolescents ask about life and the world? This volume addresses different aspects of how existential questions have been dealt with in educational research. It especially draws attention to the Swedish research tradition of focusing on life questions and the interpretation of life in education, but with contemporary international research added. It also addresses issues of ethics education and discusses possible options for the future of existential questions as a resource for education.

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