Curriculum & Policy Research Spotlights
Can CoRE’s National Entitlement Recommendations work in Primary RE? A Primary RE practitioner-research project
A practitioner‑research project exploring whether CoRE’s National Entitlement recommendations can be effectively applied in primary RE classrooms.
Deep and meaningful? The Ofsted religious education subject report
Summarises Ofsted’s subject report on Religious Education, providing key findings and implications for classroom practice.
Researching religion and worldviews: Designing a sequential curriculum
Find out what happened when three RE teachers created lessons using the online religious data resource; British Religion in Numbers.
The Religion and Worldviews Project: Teacher-Led Curriculum Framework
Summary of how a teacher‑led team developed and trialled a practical curriculum framework to help schools implement a religion and worldviews approach grounded in reflexivity, contextual knowledge and pupil sense‑making.
What does the shift to worldview mean for teachers?
Summary of Trevor Cooling’s research explaining how a shift to a worldview approach reshapes RE by emphasising lived experience, personal worldview formation and responsible hermeneutics, and what this means for teachers in practice.
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 […]