On Relevant Knowledge and Valorization in Religious and Worldview Education

Abstract

Internationalization of academic research and international knowledge transfer can contribute to making religious and worldview educational practices relevant. Thus, international endearvors of academic research are also to be valued as well as national endeavors. However, neo-liberal perverse stimuli have had the upper hand in academic research policies since the 1980s. Thus research policy criteria and aims of academic research need to change in order to result in relevancy and valorization for pedagogical practices. Following a pragmatistic train of thought in philosophy of science can offer the possibility for a democratic approach which is truly oriented on the world’s problems in which academic researchers, pedagogical practitioners, politicians and lay-persons can join forces.