Articles by Rachael Jackson-Royal

Compiled by Rachael Jackson-Royal, Head of RE and a member of the NATRE Executive. [email protected]

This research update contains information on research being undertaken connecting Christianity to animal ethics, as well as an update on the RE Teachers and Character Project. The first article discusses the work of...

This research update is particularly useful for secondary school teachers as it focuses on resources for the A level and GCSE that are based on current research. The first article discusses the unique contributions...

Compiled by Rachael Jackson-Royal This research update is particularly useful for ITE providers (especially in the primary sector) as well as teachers focusing on religious experience or even religious language. In the...

This research update is particularly useful for those teachers who are teaching the GCSE. The first article provides readers with a way of teaching Hinduism and Buddhism through the method of dialogue, especially as...

Compiled by Doctor Rachael Jackson-Royal, Head of RE at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, and a member of the NATRE Executive. Richard Dawkins once remarked that ‘the nineteenth century is the last time...

Compiled by Doctor Rachael Jackson-Royal, Head of RE at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, and a member of the NATRE Executive. Towards the end of a 30-year career I stumbled across, almost literally, an...

Hayrunisa Pelge of the University of Birmingham is currently undertaking a doctorate looking at spirituality and autistic persons, focusing particularly on the role that spirituality plays in the lives of autistic...

Researchers at King’s College, University of London and the UCL Institute of Education have been working hard looking at ways in which the pedagogy of Critical Religious Education (CRE) – credited to Professor Andy...

This edition of the research update contains two very different summaries of current work that is being undertaken within the field of RE. The first discusses a project at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values...

Over the past few years, the Religions and Education Research Unit at Warwick University (WRERU) has undertaken a large-scale research project focusing upon ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity’,...

A research project run by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, and funded by St Luke’s Trust, on ‘bridging the gaps’ in trainee and newly qualified teachers’ subject knowledge. This...

A joint research initiative between NATRE and the University of Bristol aimed at promoting better community relations in RE lessons through the use of contact theory. A team of researchers at the University of Bristol...

Moving between two educational traditions and Research in Christian education

In this research update, there are two very different snapshots of work that is occurring within the field of RE. The first is a summary of the doctoral work of Matthew Vince, who has been focusing on the experiences...

In this edition of Research update Dr Patricia Hannam discusses her work with Brunel University, which focuses on what she feels are the forgotten dimensions of RE. This is followed by an overview of Research for RE, the...

Researching religious integration (Emma Godshaw, University of Bristol)
Researching the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus (Simone Whitehouse, University of Birmingham)

The study of Islam in universities and other academic institutions is often different to the study of Judaism and Christianity. This is because, unlike the Gospels and the Hebrew Bible, the methods of form criticism...

Research project on collective worship