*Corresponding Author’ Email: viktoriia.chorna@sh.se
Proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Research in Education,
Teaching and Learning, Vol. 1, Issue. 1, 2022, pp. 12-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33422/icmetl.v1i1.25
Copyright © 2022 Author(s)
ISSN: 2783-7734 online
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Alternative Forms and Systems for Religious
Education in Primary Schools in Sweden
Viktoriia Chorna
Ph.D., Docent, researcher, Department of Historical and Contemporary Studies,
Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract
Religious education is an effective tool for organizing primary school children's spiritual and
moral development. Primary religious education aims to teach interaction and achieve
constructive dialogues with others. Teachers have a responsibility to make classes appealing
and learning accessible by taking the age range and cognitive skills of primary school
children into account in the planning. Introducing a mixture of alternative forms and systems
for teaching may be the best way to achieve this. Approaches from several alternative
education systems could be used to expand religious education teaching practices in primary
schools. The systems that are to be discussed further here are homeschooling, unschooling,
world schooling, outdoor education, online learning, Montessori, Frobel, Amonashvili, and
Waldorf.
Keywords: religious education, primary school children, alternative forms and systems