Developing Pupils’ Skills in Inter-Worldview Dialogue
Developing Pupils’ Skills in Inter-Worldview Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the design and results of a research and development project that was conducted in Espoo, Finland. The objective was to develop material to enhance inter-worldview dialogue in a school context in the spirit of the teacher-as-researcher movement. Ten teachers and five schools were involved. The focus is on pupils’ experience and on one school. It is mapped both by the pupils’ written reflections and teachers’ observations, and supplemented by feedback and observations from other schools. For the pupils the project provided important experiences that diminished their prejudices and provided them with confidence concerning the possibility of a peaceful dialogue between worldviews. When designing dialogue education it is worthwhile to take non-religious worldviews into account, to treat pupils’ personal worldviews sensitively and to provide pupils with encounters with real young people from diverse worldviews.

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