Religious Education in schools continues to be the subject of debate and is especially topical in our multicultural and multi-faith society. 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.

Notes on contributors

viii

Abbreviations

x

Preface

xiii

PART I The nature of Religious Education within the school curriculum

1

(98)

The statutory requirements for Religious Education 1988 -- 2001: religious, political and social influences

3

(13)

Alan Brown

A rationale for Religious Education

16

(11)

Lynne Broadbent

Religious Education in Church schools

27

(17)

John Bailey

Commitment and indoctrination: a dilemma for Religious Education?

44

(12)

Trevor Cooling

Issues in the teaching of Religious Education: assessing achievement in RE from early years to `A' Level

56

(15)

John Keast

Inspecting Religious Education: can inspections improve Religious Education?

71

(15)

Jan Thompson

Religious Education in the European context

86

(13)

Peter Schreiner

PART II Religious Education in the classroom

99

(64)

How far do Programmes for RE relate to the Social and Psychological Development of Pupils? Development through Religious Education

101

(10)

Brian Gates

Ethnography and Religious Education

111

(12)

Eleanor Nesbitt

Not `either-or', more a case of `both-and': towards an inclusive gender strategy for Religious Education

123

(13)

Dinah Hanlon

Religious Education and pupils with special needs: a dialogue

136

(14)

Lynne Broadbent

Alan Brown

The birth of a new Religious Studies at post-16

150

(13)

Arthur Giles

PART III Religious Education and the wider curriculum

163

(55)

The contribution of Religious Education to whole school initiatives

165

(13)

Lynne Broadbent

Is Religious Education and ethical and moral debate a contradiction?

178

(11)

Peter Vardy

Embodying the spirit: realising RE's potential in the spiritual dimension of the curriculum

189

(12)

John Hammond

Religious Education and Collective Worship: bedfellows or just good friends?

201

(9)

Geoff Marshall-Taylor

World religions: the boundaries of belief and unbelief

210

(8)

John Bowker

Bibliography

218

(10)

Index

228

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