Articles about Commission of RE
Theory and practice
Reflections on The Way Forward: a neo-liberal future for RE in England?
Since the publication of the Commission on RE’s final report (CoRE 2018) in September 2018 there has been much spoken and written about the implications of the report for our subject. Much of this has been around the...
Theory and practice
Big Ideas for Religious Education by Barbara Wintersgill
A review article by Lat Blaylock, Editor, REtoday This slim but significant book, published in October 2017 (and available for free at bit.ly/2I9tTYW), about how RE curriculum decisions should be made has already had an...
Events and resources
Big questions about the future of RE and a commission to answer them from the REC
RE has always been about asking the big questions, but at the moment there are big questions being asked about the subject itself. Should the curriculum be set nationally or locally? What could be done to raise the...
Theory and practice
Shifting ground: why current debate about the future of RE matters to teachers … and to society
There is growing recognition that the situation in which RE finds itself today is a tangled and unhelpful web of different ideas, understandings and structures. Though this might feel like a ‘thousand miles’ from...
Events and resources
CORE gets started: REC Commission news
In November the Commissioners making up the independent Commission on Religious Education will sit down for their first full meeting. It is a Commission that has been some time in the making. On one level, the Commission...
Events and resources
CoRE Interim Report
The Commission on Religious Education has now met for three residential meetings in each of the terms in this academic year. The Commission has also travelled around England for evidence gathering sessions in...
Theory and practice
RE for all?
A response to the RE Commission’s Interim Report Jonathan Doney In the last edition of REtoday, we published a variety of views on the Interim Report from the Commission on Religious Education. In this response,...
Opinion
A new settlement for RE?
Reactions to the Commission on RE’s Interim Report We invited short reviews and responses to the CoRE report from some key voices in the RE community. They don’t all agree, and they don’t hold back. Whose views do...
Opinion
What future for RE after the Commission on RE?
Doctor Anthony Towey of St Mary’s University, who serves as one of the commissioners, sums up the work so far. Over the past 15 months I have been privileged to be a member of the Independent Commission on RE, convened...