In Conversation Archive
Challenging knowledge in RE: Big questions, different perspectives Stephen Pett
A session from March 2021 where Dawn Cox is in conversation with Stephen Pett on Challenging knowledge in RE: Big questions, different perspectives. You can find out more about this project and the primary books and secondary books below.
Innovation through co-production Martha Shaw, 9th December 2020
A session from December 2020 where Katie Freeman is in Conversation with Martha Shaw about Innovation in RE through co-production. A film of work At Bickleigh Down Primary School was shown in the session.
A film of work At Bickleigh Down Primary School was shown in the session. You can watch it here:
Writing towards an anti-racist RE curriculum Alex Brown, 26th May 2021
A session from May 2021where Kate Christopher is in Conversation with Alex Brown about Writing towards an anti-racist RE curriculum.
Additional Resources
Alex shared 3 downloadable resources:
Alex has gone to study a Masters and a doctorate in this area of work.
A variety of resources were shared:
- https://youtu.be/nJUHnazRgJ4-EC An INSET day – George Floyd and Lockdown: Navigating through the complexities of race relations
- Pain and Womanhood — Magical Women -Womenhood and pain (poem and a collaboration with various artists who responded to Alex’s words with artwork)
- Reflections on Black Suffering, Pain and Re-imagining Freedom | Conversations With… -Reflections on black suffering, pain and reimagining freedom
- A Letter of Urgency – Black Feminist Collective – A LETTER OF URGENCY
- Is Britain still racist? (theleftberlin.com) -Is Britain still Racist?
- https://youtu.be/-jChSmMO960 Black Lives Matter: Reflections with Alexandra Brown (interfaith conversation with a good friend who is also an Imam)
Religion and Belief Literacy – reconnecting a chain of learning Professor Adam Dinham, 17th November 2021
A session from November 2021 where Kevin O’Grady is in conversation with Professor Adam Dinham who shares some of the thinking behind his book of the same title. The book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. Adam proposes a clear pathway for engaging well with religion and belief diversity in public and shared settings.
Holocaust Memorial Day Joe Miller – Head of Outreach at Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, 16th January 2023
A session from January 2023 where Dr Kathryn Wright is in conversation with Joe Miller from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT). Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. In this recording we learn more about the work of the Trust and the resources they provide for a range of education settings.
RETOPEA! Promoting religious peace and tolerance through history. Professor John Wolffe and friends, 20th March 2023
A session from March 2023 where Dr Kathryn Wright is in conversation with Professor John Wolffe and friends. How did people neutralize religious contradictions in the past? Can we learn from those experiences? These are the questions that were central to a large-scale international research project RETOPEA. It investigated the different ways in which religious coexistence is thought of in different environments and how religious peace treaties have been established in the past. A reading is available below.
Lessons from experiences in Lebanon with Dr Nayla Tabbara and Mayssam Imad of the Adyan Foundation, 15th May 2023
A session from May 2023 where Josh Cass is in conversation with Dr Nayla Tabbara and Mayssam Imad of the Adyan Foundation about approaches to Religious Education and Inclusive Citizenship Education.
Being Ambitious: A religion and worldviews curriculum for all Dr Kathryn Wright, summer 2021
Dr Kathryn Wright, recorded in Summer 2021, outlines her views on developing curricula in the light of moves towards a religion and worldviews paradigm and the focus on three types of knowledge.
In Conversation: On the Road with the CaAR – Uniting Around a National RE Journey. Fiona Moss with Dr Kathryn Wright, Paul Smalley, Katie Freeman and Ben Wood
This in conversation held in December 2025 brought together expert voices from across the sector. Hosted by Fiona Moss, this one-hour discussion explored the significance of the CaAR’s recommendations, considered what this change could mean in practice, and reflected on how the RE community can move forward.