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Vishakha Kumar – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
This paper presents a study which was done to investigate schoolteachers' discourse on morality. The teachers used three dimensions to construct and present their discourse on morality: food, religion and relationship. These teachers were drawn from different types of private and public schools in Delhi, the capital of India. The teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Islam, Christianity
Lilja, Annika; Franck, Olof; Osbeck, Christina; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lyngfelt, Anna – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers' insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes
McDonnell, Jane – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
The promotion of fundamental British values (FBV) and character education in schools can be seen as part of a new policy landscape of values education in England, with significant implications for Religious Education (RE). Research on these policies has tended to emphasise their securitising and constraining effects. This paper shifts attention to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Values Education, Teacher Attitudes
Tuna, Mehmet H. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Although Islamic religious education (IRE) has been offered in Austrian public schools since 1982, public opinion and the general opinions of several stakeholders in the school system tend to be negative. One of the main reasons is the shortage of professionals, which led to recruiting personnel from different disciplines, who often lack the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Professionalism, Teacher Education, Islam
Lundie, David; Ali, Waqaus; Ashton, Michael; Billingsley, Sue; Heydari, Hinnah; Iqbal, Karamat; McDowell, Kate; Thompson, Matthew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper reports the co-creation of knowledge through a Practitioner Action Research Community of Practice of teachers and mid-level policy enactors which sought to engage the question of how to enhance Religious Education in primary schools serving socially disadvantaged children. Co-authors' professional values and assumptions are explored,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Action Research, School Community Relationship, Disadvantaged
Aukland, Knut – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
In this article I explore the research-practice gap in RE with a unique dataset: The communication by teachers, and between teachers and researchers in a Norwegian Facebook group for RE teachers. Posts and comments in the group reflect that teachers largely communicate a practical form of knowledge with little engagement with research. At the same…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Researchers, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Media
Wiens, Peter D.; Hightower, Andromeda; Yoder, Paul J.; Chou, Annie – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Private Christian schools in North America endeavour to provide an educational experience that integrates religious and academic training for their preK-12 students. The integration of faith and academics has been studied in higher education institutions in North America, but not substantially in preK-12 schools. This study uses the lens of…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Self Efficacy, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Bowie, Robert A.; Panjwani, Farid; Clemmey, Katie – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This article reports findings from a sacred text scholarship project in Religious Education/Religion and Worldviews (RE/RW) lessons. In the "Texts and Teachers" project secondary school teachers found that RE became more "meta" through a more scholarly treatment of texts, and led to "leap moments" with pupils who…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Biblical Literature, World Views, Hermeneutics
Sultmann, W.; Lamb, J.; Hall, D.; Borg, G. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Teachers (n = 125) and students (n = 1478) evaluated a trial RE curriculum in Australia using an online survey. Results showed that teachers rated the curriculum significantly more highly than students. Type and size of school influenced teacher and student perceptions. Four conclusions were drawn: The trial RE curriculum was positively received…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Agbaria, Ayman K.; Obeid Shehadeh, Hazar – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This qualitative article examines the making of a distinct Christian identity through confessional teaching of Christianity. As there had been very little empirical research on teachers of religious education and none on teaching Christianity in Israel, this pioneering paper investigates the teachers' views on their goals and challenges, while…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Identification (Psychology), Christianity, Foreign Countries
Flanagan, Ruth – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
Teachers' worldviews may impact their practice in terms of pedagogy, curriculum choices, and the value they assign to, or enthusiasm for, a curriculum subject. In England, Religious Education (RE) involves the teaching of religious and non-religious worldviews. RE teachers often lack training, subject knowledge, confidence or even desire to teach…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, World Views, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Microaggressions and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Religious Education Teachers in Polish Schools
Roszak, Piotr; Horvat, Sasa; Wólkowski, Jan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
The article presents the results of a qualitative survey conducted in 2019, in which 2.558 catholic religious education (RE) teachers working in state schools participated. The results indicate the existence of various forms of microaggressions towards religion teachers at school. First, the article analyses the relation between RE teachers and…
Descriptors: Religious Discrimination, Social Bias, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Metcalfe, Jason; Moulin-Stozek, Daniel – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
This article presents the findings of a qualitative interview study undertaken with RE teachers (n = 30), working in English schools with secondary status. Despite recent policy interest in character education, there is a lacuna of information about the extent RE contributes to character education. The present study focuses on teachers'…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Values Education, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes
Phillips, Rita – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
Teachers are at risk to suffer from burnout and adverse mental health as a result of work-related stress and conflicts. The development of teacher resilience depends upon a complex interaction between extraneous factors (i.e. administrative and social support), and, intrinsic factors (i.e. personal values). Although it is known that personal faith…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Religious Factors, Teacher Burnout, At Risk Persons
Alhashmi, Mariam; Moussa-Inaty, Jase – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
Islamic education (IE) is currently receiving increased attention and undergoing major changes at the international level. A few studies have investigated the structured professional development programmes provided to IE teachers. However, the area of autonomous IE teacher professional learning continues to be under-researched. Based on…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Islam, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries