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CHAPTER 5
Abstract
Dutch cooperation schools are populated by students from non-affiliated backgrounds and from Christian backgrounds. Previous research detected a discrepancy between the value of encounter pursued by a cooperation school and the limited practice of dialogue in religious education at the same school.
In a participatory action research context, teachers designed a new kind of celebration to enhance the practice of encounter. The result of this single case study was that teachers recognized core values of their school identity in this activity. An outsider researcher’s perspective based on theory on encounter and dialogue leads to the conclusion that not all possibilities to improve congruency between school values and lived educational practice are utilized.
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