Thesis

An analysis of the development of religious education within the secondary school curriculum and educational thinking, and its reception in the educational world

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  • University of Strathclyde
Date of award
  • 2025
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  • T11814
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Abstract
  • The aim of this study is to examine the developing relationship of religious education within Scottish secondary schooling. This relationship will be defined as 'making the justification and rationale of the subject confirm to educational criteria', and to analyse the effect of this concept, and this introduction, on the subject and on its teaching in schools. The term educationalisation is used in the study, to refer to the use of educational criteria in relation to religious education, and not, for example, theological criteria. This task is undertaken by gathering information in different fashions, from a variety of sources. First, interviews with some of those involved in religious education were used. Second, RE teachers themselves were involved, by means of the records of the Association of Teachers of Religious Education In Scotland. Third, schools were involved, through Local Education Authorities, in their response to written requests for information about provision in religious education. Fourth, the literature of religious education was involved by means of official reports on the subject, produced by a number of committees, and also by HMI, and the work of academics involved in the fields of religious education, general curriculum, and of policy making. Data from all of these sources has been brought together, to produce the outcome of the thesis. The methodological strategy adopted for the study is, in the main qualitative, and is discussed in Chapter 1. This approach was chosen because of the wide scope, involving four distinct sources of data, which it offers; and because the range of data available also was broad, covering interview procedures, survey returns, historic records of the period, and last, the literature of the subject during the period under investigation.
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  • Bryce, T. G. K.
  • Humes, Walter M.
  • Boyd, Brian, 1948-
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  • uk.bl.ethos.443151

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