Curriculum & Policy Research Spotlights
Explore Research Spotlights examining curriculum design, policy, assessment and change in religion and worldviews education.
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Teaching Against Hate: What RE Can Do To Build Resilience to Far-Right Extremism
Fay Lowe’s research explores how Religious Education can help pupils critically examine extremist narratives, consider identity and belonging, and develop moral reasoning. It offers practical implications for creating an ambitious, relevant curriculum…
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Buddhism in English Secondary Religious Education (11-14 year olds)
This research spotlight summarises Romana Meereis’ study of Buddhism in secondary Religious Education, exploring differences between locally agreed syllabuses, textbook content, and teachers’ views on curriculum provision and reform.
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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…
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Researching religion and worldviews: Designing a sequential curriculum
Explore how a Barnet SACRE project translates Ann Taves’ research into a sequenced Religion and Worldviews curriculum, using six ‘Big Questions’ to support inclusive, coherent learning from ages 4 to 19.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.