English RE: under pressure?

This paper will examine four potential areas of pressure to RE in England in the 2020s: Academisation - and the structural issues arising from ever greater numbers of schools being outside local authority control; the alleged secularisation of the curriculum through the Worldviews Paradigm; the fina...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: AULRE 2023: Theory, policy and practice in RE - is this a time of divergence?"
Main Author: Smalley, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2023
In: Journal of Religious Education
Year: 2023, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 213-224
Further subjects:B Worldviews
B Religious Education
B Academisation
B SACREs
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Summary:This paper will examine four potential areas of pressure to RE in England in the 2020s: Academisation - and the structural issues arising from ever greater numbers of schools being outside local authority control; the alleged secularisation of the curriculum through the Worldviews Paradigm; the financial situation of Standard Advisory Councils on Religious Education in England; and the teacher recruitment crisis. Taking a historical turn, it will then consider whether these are uniquely challenging to the subject, or whether the RE community might gain solace from a realisation that these challenges have been overcome at other points in history.
ISSN:2199-4625
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Religious Education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s40839-023-00207-y