Exploring a multi-religious education curriculum: an imperative dialogue

Abstract

The multi-religious curriculum in Botswana was introduced in 1996 and 2006 at junior and senior secondary school levels respectively following the Botswana’s Revised National Policy on Education of 1994 (Botswana Government, 1994).The key emphasis was education that affected positively the behaviours of young people. The paper shows how the present secondary school multi-religious form of Religious Education (RE) curriculum tackles the issue of the supposedly religious pluralism in Botswana public secondary schools. The paper points out that positive engagement is more than just being tolerant as this also brings about genuine religious pluralism in the teaching and learning of a multi-religious education curriculum.