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Commentary

Quebec's Ethics and Religious Culture School Curriculum: A Critical Perspective

Pages 380-393 | Published online: 11 May 2015
 

Abstract

This article examines Quebec's lauded and influential Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) primary and secondary school curriculum from a much-needed and seldom-explored critical perspective. It asks a series of interrelated questions: what are the ideological foundations of the programme? What is its particular understanding of the study of religion as a pedagogical act? How does the ERC curriculum view the place and role of religion within the history of Quebec and its quest for a sense of collective identity? In what ways does the ERC programme reflect and support a particular understanding of the common good? These and other questions will help focus discussion on the ERC programme as an interesting example of a specifically state-sanctioned understanding of the role and place of the religious in a highly secularised yet culturally distinctive society.

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