Issues in Religious Education

by Broadbent, Lynne; Brown, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780203018651
• ISBN10: 0203018656
• Copyright: 2002-07-11
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book highlights the issues that invariably confront those involved with the teaching of Religious Education. Questioning the assumptions underlying the legal requirements governing the teaching of RE it raises questions of rationale.

Table of Contents

The Nature of Religious Education Within the School Curriculum

The Statutory Requirement for Religious Education 1988 - 2000: Religious, Political and Social Influences

A Rationale for Religious Education

Religious Education in Church Schools

Commitment and Indoctrination: A Dilemma for RE?

Assessing Achievement in Religious Education from Early Years to A-Level

Inspecting Religious Education: Can Inspections Improve Religious Education?

Religious Education in the European Context

Religious Education in the Classroom Development Through Religious Education?

Ethnography and Religious Education

Not 'Either - Or', More a Case of 'Both - And': Towards an Inclusive Gender Strategy for Religious Education

Education for All: Religious Education and Pupils with Special Needs: A Dialogue

The Birth of a New Religious Studies at Post-16

Religious Education and the Wider Curriculum

The Contribution of Religious Education to Whole School Initiatives

Is Religious Education and Ethical and Moral Debate a Contradiction?

Embodying the Spirit - Realising RE's Potential in the Spiritual Dimension of the Curriculum

Religious Education and Collective Worship: Bedfellows or Just Good Friends?

World Religions: The Boundaries of Belief and Unbelief

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