Preparing Professionals to Dialogue about Extremism and Radicalization: - A look at the ERC programs at

The Ethics and Religious Culture Program (ERC) in Quebec The launch of the Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) program was the result of the de- confessionalization or secularization of the Quebec education system that started in 2000, as well as the increasing religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity in Quebec society that accentuated the need to help dominant and minority groups to better unders. [...] The ERC program is based on the principles of learning as a (a) continuous phenomenon following the cognitive development of the child the content proceeds from simple to complex, from the concrete to the abstract. [...] Key Findings from Student Responses to the Survey Finding # 1: Most students strongly believe that the ERC program has potential to make students less vulnerable to radicalization and violent extremism and highly regard the dialogue competency in this respect Most students suggested that the dialogue competency of ERC was the strength of the program and strongly believed that it has the potential. [...] For example, while P(MG) also acknowledged the potential of dialogue competency, she could not “see a connection between the topics of violent extremism and radicalization and the ethics and religious culture competencies in the ERC program because the ERC program’s aim is to encourage our students to view all religious and ethical perspectives with respect and empathy.” It appears that this stude. [...] 2020 Figure 2: Individual level difference in latent traits of the students in both McGill and UQAM for both experimental and control groups following the ERC course Figure 3: Individual level difference in latent traits in MDOM and KED of the students in both McGill and UQAM for both experimental and control groups and the differences among them following the ERC course 32 TSAS R.