This is a free event open to all.

What role does school curricula play in fostering or inhibiting understanding between religious and social groups?

This discussion features two recent authors of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies who have written about the importance of implementing curricula in schools and faith communities that teach a commitment to intergroup understanding. Highlighting examples from Palestine-Israel and Bosnia, former headmaster of Huntington School in the United Kingdom David Kibble illustrates how school curricula can sometimes be used to perpetuate misunderstandings between social groups. Kibble will be joined by Professor of Islamic Studies Sobhi Rayan from Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education in Baqa-El-Gharbia, Israel to discuss religious resources from both Christianity and Islam that can help religiously-committed students to celebrate diversity while remaining rooted in their own traditions.