National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future [Scholarly Article - British Journal of Religious Education, August 2022]

Title:

National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future

 

Authors:

Nigel Fancourt

Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

 

Published:

British Journal of Religious Education, Volume 44, Issue 4, 26 August 2022

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01416200.2022.2080357

 

Introduction:

In this editorial, we discuss the past, present and future of research and scholarship on the relationship between religious education, law and the judiciary, through national, international and supranational perspectives. The past is explored through highlighting previously published articles in this journal over eight decades, illustrating some perennial issues and challenges, both in the UK and internationally; it thereby acts as a catalyst for the new scholarship and research in this special issue. The present is explored through a discussion of the papers of this special issue, which range from Colombia to Scotland and from national to international/supranational perspectives, exploring various issues related to religious education, law and the judiciary. We then present broad comments on the future of research and scholarship on the relationship between religious education, law and the judiciary. 

 

Religious education syllabus development and the need for education theory [Scholarly article - Journal of Religious Education, October 2021]

Title:

Religious education syllabus development and the need for education theory 

Author:

Patricia Hannam

Published:

Journal of Religious Education, 28 October 2021

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40839-021-00154-6

 

Abstract:

Religious education in England is experiencing change of ‘spring tide’ proportions during the third decade of the twenty-first century. This paper offers a flavour of aspects of education theory informing the development of a locally agreed syllabus in the English context. After offering some background contextual information, the paper proceeds to demonstrate some implications of the absence of education theory in religious education discourse in recent times. The body of the paper lays out ways in which a remedy for this has been sought through syllabus development, followed by a discussion identifying practical implications. These include (i) a focus on the importance of teaching and professional responsibilities of each teacher and (ii) attention to curriculum making. The paper concludes by reiterating a desire to bring the educational position of religious education into the open so as to articulate an educational orientation that can secure the value at this point in history of bringing anything concerning religion to children and young people at all. This paper is of course limited as to what can be achieved entirely in this respect; greater consideration of this belongs in a further paper. However, it is hoped the matter will be seen as a pressing one.

The Influence of Religious Education on the Religiosity of Roma Children in Slovakia (Scholarly Article by Viktoria Soltesova & Matus Pleva)

Title:

The Influence of Religious Education on the Religiosity of Roma Children in Slovakia 

 

Authors:

Viktoria Soltesova 

Faculty of Education, Department of Theology and Christian Education, Matej Bei University, Banska bystrica, Slovakia

  & 

Matus Pleva

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Department of Electronics and Multimedia Telecommunications, Technical University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia

 

Published:

Religious Education, 3 September 2020

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00344087.2020.1816248

Abstract:

The primary purpose of this research is the question of religiosity among secondary school-age Roma children attending Religious Education (RE) programs in Evangelical churches in Slovakia. This study adopted the questionnaire “Brief Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality” used by the Fetzer Institute in a General Social Survey (GSS) to examine the religiosity of Roma children attending RE and not attending RE. We asked questions about their daily spiritual experiences and personal religious habits. This study revealed some variation in the values of both groups of respondents and the correlation coefficients describing the degree of relationship between them.