Olof Franck & Peder Thalén 
Powerful Knowledge in Religious Education [PDF ebook] 
Exploring Paths to A Knowledge-Based Education on Religions

Chapter 1. Powerful Knowledge in Religious Education? Perspectives in conversation with Michael Young and Paulo Freire.- Chapter 2. Powerful Knowledge in Ethics and Existential Questions –Which Discourses, for Which Pupils, in Which Contexts?.- Chapter 3. Powerful Knowledge in Non-denominational Religious Education: Some Considerations on the Relationship Between Curriculum and Pedagogy.- Chapter 4. International Knowledge Transfer in Religious Education and the debate on Powerful Knowledge.- Chapter 5. Knowledge-based teaching about religious diversity: a new approach in the “Culture and citizenship in Québec”.- Chapter 6. Powerful knowledge or Big Ideas in Religious Education? Aims and classroom approaches.- Chapter 7. The role of knowledge, knowledge processes and experience in the RE curriculum.- Chapter 8. Religion: a legitimate Anomaly in Education?.- Chapter 9. Subject-specific core knowledge and skills in the academic study of religion(s) and religious education in theory and practice.- Chapter 10. Worldview Literacy as Transformative Knowledge.- Chapter 11. RE and the Complexity of the Knowledge Problem(s).- 

Olof Franck is Professor of Subject Matter of Education in the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Peder Thalén is a professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.