Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom
An updated, expanded, edition of the popular textbook for student and practising teachers of religious education. It is a book for and about teaching and learning religious education in schools, which is a lively and open-ended subject, ideal for those wanting to explore how people understand the world, and how they live their lives. A wide range of religious and non-religious ways of life are explored.

New to this edition are descriptions of more recent research on teaching and learning religious education from the UK, Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Also included are personal accounts written by pupils, teachers and researchers, giving voice to those learning and researching religious education in practice. As well as revising and extending every chapter of the first edition, there are brand-new chapters on:

- the real lives of teachers and pupils in religious education
- religious education around the world
- spirituality
- thinking about philosophy, truth, and religious education
- ethics, rights, values and virtues
- creativity and religious education.

A key feature of the book is the 33 classroom activities for learners aged 7 to 18, which are also designed for use by student and practising teachers. These activities enable those studying and teaching religious education to be active researchers.

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Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom
An updated, expanded, edition of the popular textbook for student and practising teachers of religious education. It is a book for and about teaching and learning religious education in schools, which is a lively and open-ended subject, ideal for those wanting to explore how people understand the world, and how they live their lives. A wide range of religious and non-religious ways of life are explored.

New to this edition are descriptions of more recent research on teaching and learning religious education from the UK, Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Also included are personal accounts written by pupils, teachers and researchers, giving voice to those learning and researching religious education in practice. As well as revising and extending every chapter of the first edition, there are brand-new chapters on:

- the real lives of teachers and pupils in religious education
- religious education around the world
- spirituality
- thinking about philosophy, truth, and religious education
- ethics, rights, values and virtues
- creativity and religious education.

A key feature of the book is the 33 classroom activities for learners aged 7 to 18, which are also designed for use by student and practising teachers. These activities enable those studying and teaching religious education to be active researchers.

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Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom

Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom

by Julian Stern
Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom

Teaching Religious Education: Researchers in the Classroom

by Julian Stern

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Overview

An updated, expanded, edition of the popular textbook for student and practising teachers of religious education. It is a book for and about teaching and learning religious education in schools, which is a lively and open-ended subject, ideal for those wanting to explore how people understand the world, and how they live their lives. A wide range of religious and non-religious ways of life are explored.

New to this edition are descriptions of more recent research on teaching and learning religious education from the UK, Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Also included are personal accounts written by pupils, teachers and researchers, giving voice to those learning and researching religious education in practice. As well as revising and extending every chapter of the first edition, there are brand-new chapters on:

- the real lives of teachers and pupils in religious education
- religious education around the world
- spirituality
- thinking about philosophy, truth, and religious education
- ethics, rights, values and virtues
- creativity and religious education.

A key feature of the book is the 33 classroom activities for learners aged 7 to 18, which are also designed for use by student and practising teachers. These activities enable those studying and teaching religious education to be active researchers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350037090
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/25/2018
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.66(w) x 9.71(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at York St John University, UK. He is General Secretary of ISREV - the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values - an association of religious education scholars from more than 30 countries. He is a member of the editorial board of the British Jourbanal of Religious Education and is widely published, with 13 books and over 30 articles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Introduction: Inclusive RE:search
2. Dialogue Within and Between
3. The Real Lives of Teachers and Pupils in Religious Education
4. RE around the World
5. Understanding Pedagogy in Religious Education
6. Inclusion, Diversity and Religious Education
7. Working with Sacred Texts
8. Spirituality
9. Ethnographic Research in Communities
10. Thinking about Philosophy, Truth, and Religious Education
11. Ethics, Rights, Morality and Virtues
12. Creativity and RE
13. The Future of RE:search
Bibliography
Index

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