Research

Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science

Professor Mathew Guest

Professor Andy Fisher

Compiled by Dr Rachael Jackson-Royal, HoD of RE and a member of the NATRE Executive. She can be co tacted at:

[email protected]

Compiled by Dr Rachael Jackson-Royal, HoD of RE and a member of the NATRE Executive. She can be co tacted at:
[email protected]

This research update discusses two current projects of interest to teachers. ‘After Religious Education’, led by Dr David Lewin, focuses on some of the most significant issues currently facing the subject. In its...

Susannah Cornwall

Dr Jane McDonnell

This research update firstly discusses the work of John Ruskin. In particular, his belief that education should
involve teaching children to see, and also how he wrestled with his religious beliefs throughout...

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. The first article discusses how the apophatic and cataphatic ways of approaching God are entwined...

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...