Research of the Month

Are you looking for summaries of high-quality academic research that are relevant to classroom practice? For accounts of collaborations between teachers and researchers, or research projects undertaken by teachers? For ways to connect with Religion and Worldviews research? Our research of the month feature aims to refresh and develop your professional knowledge and to help you get up to date with what others are doing. Each month we will feature a new piece of research or choose one from our library to highlight.

We hope you will be able to use this monthly focus for personal professional development, as well as a source of reading group material for local or regional groups and hubs.

Our library stores concise reports of Religion and Worldview-relevant research from 2017 as well as links to historical policy documents.

Teacher Engagement in and with Research at the Edge Hill RE Summer School

Karen Steele and Dawn Cox

This month’s research is the Edge Hill University RE Summer School for Primary and Secondary teachers. This is a fantastic opportunity for teachers to improve their subject knowledge and work on an area of development all with the support of Edge Hill’s expert team of tutors. Listen to Karen and Dawn share their experience of the Summer School and what you can expect if you attend.

Read about Karen’s project from the 2021 summer school Beyond the ‘Proof Text’: Analysing Islamic Texts at GCSE

Read Dawn’s research poster from her 2021 project The DIALOG Model for Analysing Texts in RE

Summer School 2024

Edge Hill University are delighted to be able to offer a free summer school for a limited number of teachers of RE teachers (primary and secondary) to improve their subject knowledge. Thanks to the generous support of Culham St Gabriel’s Trust and Edge Hill University Faculty of Education, we are able to make this a residential summer school at the stunning Edge Hill Campus in Ormskirk, running from Monday 22 July to Friday 26 July 2024.

The theme of the summer school is ‘Spooky Religion’. We are keen to explore the relationship between religion and the supernatural.

We are delighted to be able to welcome Dr Jenny Butler from Cork University to be our keynote speaker on Monday 22 July 2024.

Through the week there will then be seminars from our expert team of religion specialist tutors, two meetings with your allocated personal supervisor and a field visit to experience lived religion and worldviews, as well as plenty of time and space to work on your own question/area of development.

Applications are now open on the Edge Hill University website

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Previous research of the month

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