The Empirical Science of Religious Education (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential compendium for practitioners and researchers which makes accessible in one place original and innovative research originally published in the British Journal of Religious Education over a fifteen-year period. The twenty chapters demonstrate the contribution made to religious education by ethnographic fieldwork, practitioner research, life-history approaches to research, psychological scales and measures, and large surveys. Topics covered include teacher education and teacher experience, student understanding, attitudes and values, varieties of religious schooling, and worldview and life interpretation. The book draws together papers published during Professor Robert Jackson's term as Editor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317398523
• Artikelnr.: 44756939

Autorenporträt

Mandy Robbins is Reader in the Psychology of Religion at Glynd¿r University, UK. She is also an associate fellow in the Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religious Education and Director of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introducing the empirical science of religious education
Part 1. Ethnographic fieldwork
1.1 Bridging the gap between young people's experience of their religious
traditions at home and school: The contribution of ethnographic research
Eleanor Nesbitt
1.2 Issues in the delivery of religious education to Muslim pupils:
Perspectives from the classroom
Julia Ipgrave
Part 2. Practitioner research and community of practice
2.1 Researching religious education pedagogy through an action research
community of practice
Kevin O'Grady
2.2 'I'm less intolerant': Reflexive self-assessment in religious education
Nigel Fancourt
Part 3. Educating religious educators
3.1 Becoming an RE teacher: A life history approach
Pat Sikes and Judith Everington
3.2 The experience of Black African religious education trainee teachers
training in England
Nick Mead
Part 4. Students imaging beginnings and endings
4.1 Children's concepts of an afterlife
Sandra Frangoulis, Netta Jordan and Richard Lansdown
4.2 Insights from children's perspectives in interpreting the wisdom of the
biblical creation narrative
Howard Worsley
Part 5. In search of meaning and purpose
5.1 Weaving the threads of meaning: A characteristic of children's
spirituality and its implications for religious education
Brendan Hyde
5.2 Exploring the role of religion and spirituality in the development of
purpose: Case studies of purposeful youth
Kirsi Tirri and Brandy Quinn
Part 6. Life world and life interpretation
6.1 Islamic nature and identity management: The lifeworld of Pakistani
children in Norway
Sissel Östberg
6.2 Life interpretation and religion among Icelandic teenagers
Gunnar J. Gunnarsson
Part 7. Religious schooling
7.1 Islamic schools in The Netherlands: Compromising between identity and
quality? Geert Driessen and Pim Valkenberg
7.2 The case of the Jewish high school in Berlin: A denominational school
dealing with diversity
Christine Mueller
Part 8. Developing scales and measures
8.1 The Loman Index of Biblical interpretation: Distinguishing between
literal, symbolic and rejecting modes among 11 to 14 year olds
Susan E. Loman and Leslie J. Francis
8.2 Internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the Attitude
toward Muslim Proximity Index (AMPI): A measure of social distance
Adrian Brockett, Andrew Village and Leslie J. Francis
Part 9. Shaping and testing theories
9.1 Promoting positive attitudes towards science and religion among
sixth-form pupils: Dealing with scientism and creationism
Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis
9.2 Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional
paranormal belief: A study among teenagers
Leslie J. Francis, Emyr Williams and Mandy Robbins
Part 10. Large scale surveys
10.1 A nine-country survey of youth in Europe: Selected findings and issues
William K. Kay and Hans-Georg Ziebertz
10.2 The teenage-religion and values survey in England and Wales: An
overview
Mandy Robbins and Leslie J. Francis
Contributors