Inclusion, Diversity & Decolonisation

Analysing ‘decolonising pedagogy’ in secondary school Religious Education Lessons

Research examining how ‘decolonising pedagogy’ is understood and enacted in secondary RE classrooms through teacher practice and lesson analysis

An Approach to Decolonising Religious Education

Summary of how RE can be decolonised by challenging dominant narratives, elevating diverse voices and reshaping curriculum and pedagogy toward greater equity.

An approach to decolonising teaching about Jesus in primary schools

Research showing how primary‑school teaching about Jesus can be decolonised by avoiding white‑European portrayals and restoring his Jewish context.

Developing opportunities for diversity and progression in Religious Studies at A Level

Summary of a project that broadened A‑Level RS through EDI‑focused enrichment, university partnerships, and events highlighting progression routes and the subject’s wider value.

Essentialised, sanitised and Eurocentric: an analysis of (mis)representations of Christian attitudes to homosexuality and African Christianities in English RE textbooks

Research Spotlight Jonny Trigdell, Department of Education, University of Oxford Jonny explores how textbooks can participate in the ‘matrix of domination’ as in the current absence of RE in the National Curriculum […]