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In this introduction, a background to the chapters’ highlighting of the main issue, illustrated by the question Does a concern for educational quality, exercised in the development of various kinds of assessment procedures, have to be opposed to or in conflict with a focus on existential and relational purposes in ethics education?, is developed. The Swedish national curriculum for compulsory school, and the national tests in religious education, is introduced. Various paths for relevant research are presented and related to a focus on the contributions of Assessment in Ethics Education – A Case of National Tests in Religious Education. Specifically the research project of which this book is a part is described, and the issues treated in the chapters are, on a general level, contextualised with reference to international debates on ethics and assessment and ethics education.
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Note that throughout this volume, curriculum has been used to translate the Swedish läroplan, which contains both general instructions and the syllabuses (kursplaner) for the individual subjects.
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See Chap. 1.
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In the “Concluding Remarks” in this volume, the structure and content of the project are presented with reference to forthcoming research.
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What May be Learnt in Ethics? Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence to be Taught in Compulsory School. Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Annika Lindskog, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre et al. The 5th NoFa Conference (Nordisk Fagdidaktisk konferens), Helsinki, Finland, 27–29 May.
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What May be Learnt in Ethics? Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence to be Taught in Compulsory School. Olof Franck, Annika Lilja http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer programmes/conference/20/contribution/34085/The European Conference on Educational Research, (ECER), Budapest 7–11/9 2015 Education and Transition – Contributions from Educational Research15.
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Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence Displayed in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in Ethics. Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre. ECER Dublin 2016-08-23 – 2016-08-26, Symposium: Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence Displayed in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in Ethics.
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What May be Learnt in Ethics? Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence to be Taught in Compulsory School. Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre, Johan Tykesson. The 44th NERA Conference, 9–11 March, Helsinki.
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Values as part of pupils’ ethical competence. Christina Osbeck (keynote lecture); Ethical competences – comparisons between a few countries. Olof Franck and Karin Sporre: Symposium 4. International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Session XX, University of St. Mary on the Lake, Chicago July 31st to August 5th 2016.
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Franck, O. (2017). Introduction. In: Franck, O. (eds) Assessment in Ethics Education. Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50770-5_1
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