Teaching Religious Education Researchers in the Classroom

by Stern, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780826487674
• ISBN10: 082648767X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

How can recent research improve my RE teaching?How can I enhance my students' thinking skills in RE?How can I be more inclusive in RE?If you are interested in finding out the answers to these, and many more, questions, then this is the

Author Biography

Dr Julian Stern is Dean of the Institute for Learning at the University of Hull

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	ix
Introduction: Inclusive RE:search	1	(6)
Westhill is alive with the sound of RE	1	(1)
What is research?	2	(1)
What is RE?	3	(2)
Teaching RE: researchers in the classroom	5	(2)
Investigating text and context	7	(14)
Introduction	7	(2)
Exploring the Bible: the Biblos project	9	(4)
Exercise 2.1: What to do with the Bible?	12	(1)
Approaching the Qur'an	13	(3)
Exercise 2.2: Using Muslim sacred texts	15	(1)
The Bhagavad Gita and young children	16	(2)
Exercise 2.3: Story-telling from the Bhagavad Gita	17	(1)
Conclusion	18	(3)
Dialogue within and between	21	(19)
Introduction	21	(2)
Dialogue in RE across Europe	23	(8)
Exercise 3.1: What more can we do?	26	(1)
Exercise 3.2: Dialogue now	27	(3)
Exercise 3.3: Inside out	30	(1)
Dialogue and children's voices	31	(8)
Exercise 3.4: Friendship, membership and thought	38	(1)
Conclusion	39	(1)
Inclusions and RE	40	(23)
Introduction: The 'church of inclusion'?	40	(9)
Exercise 4.1: How inclusive is the RE curriculum?	44	(3)
Exercise 4.2: How inclusive is RE pedagogy?	47	(2)
RE and the range of pupil needs	49	(7)
Exercise 4.3: Salmon Line	55	(1)
RE, inclusion and exclusion, and new religious movements	56	(4)
Exercise 4.4: When do you feel more included?	57	(3)
Conclusion	60	(3)
Exercise 4.6: Moksha Chitram	61	(2)
Teachers and pupils: teaching and learning	63	(17)
Introduction	63	(1)
Research on RE	64	(3)
Exercise 5.1: What does religiousness mean?	66	(1)
Research on pedagogy	67	(6)
Exercise 5.2: What is typically said?	71	(2)
The varieties of RE pedagogy	73	(1)
Six ways around Easter: a pedagogical fantasy	74	(5)
Exercise 5.3: Evidence for perspectives	78	(1)
Conclusion	79	(1)
RE and human rights, values and citizenships	80	(15)
Introduction	80	(1)
Values and citizenship	81	(4)
Exercise 6.1: Worldwide debate on religion	84	(1)
Research into the impact of RE and citizenship education	85	(5)
Exercise 6.2: The value of RE	89	(1)
Religion within citizenship and human rights education	90	(3)
Exercise 6.3: The religion police	93	(1)
Conclusion	93	(2)
Ethnographic research in communities	95	(9)
Introduction	95	(1)
Ethnography, pluralism and RE	96	(2)
Exercise 7.1: Respect map	98	(1)
Ethnography, Muslim diversity and RE	98	(4)
Exercise 7.2: Reverse ethnography: drawing with people	101	(1)
Conclusion	102	(2)
Exercise 7.3: Blogging for RE	102	(2)
The future of RE:search	104	(13)
Introduction	104	(1)
Research and sincerity	105	(1)
Sincerity in phenomenological research	106	(3)
Sincerity in positivistic research	109	(1)
Sincerity in RE research	110	(3)
Participants in the Westhill Trust Seminars	113	(4)
Bibliography	117	(13)
Glossary of acronyms	130	(2)
Index	132