Conference:
ECER 2006
Format:
Symposium
Session Information
Contribution
Description: The Netherlands has a history of religious differences institutionalized in a system of all schools being state funded but differing along religious and pedagogical lines. In recent decades the population has become ethnically diverse. The Netherlands was a former colonial power and has a recent history of reliance upon 'guest' workers. Immigrants have brought different languages, cultures and religions with them. This contribution will focus on the dilemmas in the Dutch educational system arising from tensions between the autonomy of schools and teachers in teaching the curriculum and issues of equality, diversity and commonality in Dutch society. By way of illustration I will present some results of two case-studies, one concerning the dominant concept of diversity held by teacher trainers in a predominantly white, protestant institute for teacher education and one concerning a conflict about literary books for children at a protestant primary school.
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