Australian Hindu perspectives on new public curricula in Religious Studies and Values Education

Abstract

There is little recorded knowledge about the attitudes and perspectives of non‐Jewish and non‐Christian religious followers in Australia towards the inclusion of broad‐based Religious Studies or Values Education courses in the curriculum of public schools. This paper traces ethnographic work conducted with a Hindu temple community in Sydney with the intention of gathering such knowledge.

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Terence J Lovat

Terence Lovat is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Education, The University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written and researched extensively in the area of Religious Studies and Values Education.