Research Posters

A research poster is a visual representation of data or findings that have been organised in an easily digestible format. Research posters can also be used to summarise an ongoing project to a new audience. We have included research posters here from some recent projects which have been funded by Culham St Gabriel’s Trust. Click on any of the posters to open them as a pdf file.

On That Point! An Investigation Into the Use of Debating and Oracy to Teach Evaluation Skills
Beth Eades, Learning and Teaching Masters

RE-Imagining an Image A participatory study exploring monologic and dialogic approaches in Primary Religious Education
Lizzie Yeomans, OU Masters in Education 2024.

Fig 1 Copyright The Religious Education Council of England

For my final year research project (MAEd), I wanted to explore the teacher- pupil relationship in the RE primary classroom. My role as an Initial Teacher Education lecturer at a university meant that I could work with a group of student teachers in a participatory action research (PAR) group. We explored the concept of ‘learning’ in RE, and the problem of the primary RE teacher viewing themselves as an ‘expert’. This term is used over 100 times in the core content framework (CCF), which is the curriculum for ITE providers. We used liberatory theory (Freire, 1970) as a conceptual framework.

I was interested to explore whether my interpretation of figure 1, which came from a draft of the Developing a Religion and Worldviews Approach in Religious Education in England from the Religious Education Council (REC), as a monologic, colonial approach to teaching RE was shared by student teachers. The result of the PAR group was a new image (Figure 2), and a rich data set which revealed a process of conscientisation. The image challenged the concept of the teacher as impartial expert, and promoted a dialogic approach to teaching primary RE.

Questions for discussion:

1. What is knowledge in RE?
2. What is the role of the teacher in the primary RE classroom?
3. Are opportunities for pupils to engage in dialogue planned into the RE curriculum?

The DIALOG model for analysing texts in RE

A recording of Dawn Cox and Karen Steele’s  RExChange session ‘The DIALOG model and GCSE Islam’ can be found here

The use of song for spiritual development and wellbeing

Dialogism: Can a conversation among equals be experienced in a primary (R.E.) setting?

Religious Education and Emergent Technologies

Educational Disadvantage, Social Mobility and Religious Identity

Religious Literacy: A way Forward for religious education?

Teachers and Texts: Improving RE through Hermeneutics

Primary RE Practitioner Research – a teacher focussed research project

Innovative RE for REal and Religion and Worldview Literacy

RE Teachers’ Engagement with Research