A values base for the Norwegian kindergarten: common ground across cultural affiliations?
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This is an electronic version of an article published in journal of moral education, 42(1), 102-113. journal of moral education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open u r l of your article.
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Hovdelien, O. (2013). A values base for the Norwegian kindergarten: common ground across cultural affiliations?. Journal of Moral Education, 42(1), 102-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2012.752722Abstract
One of the major challenges facing modern-day secular states is the issue of social integration. The issue discussed in this article is how it is possible to arrive at unifying values in a multicultural society that is characterised by secularisation and disintegration of the Christian hegemony of former times on the one hand and by the emergence of cultural and religious diversity on the other. The analysis is centred around Norwegian Kindergarten, which represent a key institution for communicating values and morals in contemporary Norwegian society. The objects clause states that the kindergarten is based on the fundamental values of Christian and humanistic heritage and traditions, combined with values that are expressed in different religions and philosophies and that are also clearly expressed in the Declaration of Human Rights. I argue that the objects clause can be understood as a form of “common ground strategy”. This can be seen as a possible unifying values base and a key strategy for future social integration, across cultural affiliations