Download or read book Exploring a Potential Connection Between Religious Bullying and Religious Literacy in Modesto and Montreal Public Schools written by Wing Yu Chan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bullying is a well-researched phenomenon but bias-based bullying, such as bullying regardingsexual orientation, race, and gender, are only beginning to receive more attention. Religiousbullying, which occurs to individuals based on religious and non-religious bias, is one form ofbias-based bullying that has not been researched in-depth academically. Hence, from myobservations of religious bullying in one public school environment, I explored the potentialconnection between religious bullying and religious literacy to consider how teachers could usereligious literacy as a means to address religious bullying during the school hour. Through aCritical Communicative Methodology, this study surveyed 106 students and interviewed 32participants altogether in Modesto, California and Montreal, Quebec, due to the mandatoryreligious literacy courses in secondary schools in each of these cities. Findings show that theconnection between religious bullying and religious literacy can be positive and negativedepending on the curriculum, teacher attitude, teacher training, and administrative support. Thesocial-ecological framework helps us understand that the lived environment in and outside of theschool is equally important in its influence of religious literacy and religious bullying. Thus, evenwhere a religious literacy course exists, the lived environment can influence teacher or student biastowards religious bullying, regardless of the school curriculum on religious literacy"--