Religious education and multiculturalism in Norwegian curriculum
Religious education and multiculturalism in Norwegian curriculum

Summary/Abstract: Norway whose economy burgeoned with the discovery of the new petroleum and natural gas resources through the end of the 1960's, has reached a level of prosperity by allocating more funds into education, health and social security and started to allow in immigrants. Through these immigrants' various religions, beliefs and cultures were adopted and Norwegian society turned into a multicultural society. This unfolding of events let the Norwegian administrators foresee the need to develop a new religious curriculum that also included the religions other than Christianity.In this paper the importance and historical development of religious curriculum was inspected in context of multiculturalism.

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