Issues in Religious Education

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Routledge, Nov 23, 2004 - Education - 256 pages

This book is designed to give students and newly qualified teachers a contextual and theoretical background to this subject, by exploring and challenging assumptions about the place of religion in education.
The book is divided into the following sections:

  • section one sets out the context for religious education in the curriculum. It looks at political, social and religious influences on legislation, particularly in faith schools, and raises questions about assessment
  • section two focuses on Religious Education in the classroom, exploring our understanding of religion and the concept of development in Religious Education
  • section three examines Religious Education as a whole-school issue, considering its relationship to literacy, citizenship, collective worship and spiritual, ethical and moral development.

 

Contents

The statutory requirements for Religious Education 19882001 Religious political and social influences
3
A rationale for Religious Education
16
Religious Education in Church schools
27
Commitment and indoctrination a dilemma for Religious Education?
44
Issues in the teaching of Religious Education assessing achievement in RE from early years to A Level
56
Inspecting Religious Education can inspections improve Religious Education?
71
Religious Education in the European context
86
Religious Education in the classroom
99
Religious Education and pupils with special needs a dialogue
136
The birth of a new Religious Studies at post16
150
Religious Education and the wider curriculum
163
The contribution of Religious Education to whole school initiatives
165
Is Religious Education and ethical and moral debate a contradiction?
178
Embodying the spirit Realising REs potential in the spiritual dimension of the curriculum
189
Religious Education and Collective Worship bedfellows or just good friends?
201
World religions the boundaries of belief and unbelief
210

How far do Programmes for RE relate to the Social and Psychological Development of Pupils? Development through Religious Education
101
Ethnography and Religious Education
111
Not eitheror more a case of bothand towards an inclusive gender strategy for Religious Education
123

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About the author (2004)

Lynne Broadbent is Director of the British and Foreign School Society National Religious Education Centre at Brunel University. Alan Brown is an educational consultant, advisor and writer.

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