British Religion in Numbers in the Classroom

April 2023

One benefit of a Religion and Worldviews approach is the capacity to bring contextualising, contemporary information and data into the curriculum. But how to do this?

This month we present three teachers’ work in bringing current data about religion and belief into their lessons. Our teachers are Claire Ramalli, a Secondary teacher, and Nadia Nadeem and Debbie Yeomans, who are Primary teachers. Claire, Nadia and Debbie used ‘British Religion in Numbers’, a comprehensive, searchable database to present a range of statistics on faith in Britain.

Check out the website here, there is lots of fascinating information: www.brin.ac.uk
Debbie Yeomans presents their work in a research report and video, explaining how the teachers brought to life two chosen sets of data for the classroom. These data sets concern ethnic or cultural representations of Jesus, and they ways Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the British media.

As well as Debbie’s presentation, you will find the teaching information and further research, and a recording of Debbie, Claire and Nadia presenting at RExChange Research of the month: BRIN in the classroom

You can also read Nadia’s blog about the project British Religion in Numbers