ABSTRACT
The Empirical Science of Religious Education draws together a collection of innovative articles in the field of religious education which passed the editorial scrutiny of Professor Robert Jackson over the course of his impactful fourteen year career as editor of the British Journal of Religious Education. These articles have made an enormous contribution to the international literature establishing of the empirical science of religious education as a research field.
The volume draws together, organises and illustrates the contours of this emerging field and is an essential compendium which covers work in:
- teacher education and teacher experience;
- student understanding, attitudes and values;
- varieties of religious schooling, and;
- worldview and life interpretation
Organised into ten thematic sections the contributors cover the field comprehensively and bring with them an international and reflexive approach to their research.
It is an essential resource for those practitioners and researchers who wish to access original and innovative research undertaken by way of ethnographic fieldwork, practitioner research, life-history approaches to research, psychological scales and measures, and large surveys. Particularly interested readers will be studying PGCE and masters level programmes in religious education, as well as qualified religious educators undertaking continuing professional development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |28 pages
Ethnographic fieldwork
chapter |13 pages
Bridging the gap between young people's experience of their religious traditions at home and school
chapter |13 pages
Issues in the delivery of religious education to Muslim pupils
part |32 pages
Practitioner research and community of practice
part |26 pages
Educating religious educators
part |24 pages
Students imagining beginnings and endings
part |30 pages
In search of meaning and purpose
chapter |13 pages
Weaving the threads of meaning
chapter |15 pages
Exploring the role of religion and spirituality in the development of purpose
part |30 pages
Lifeworld and life interpretation
chapter |14 pages
Islamic nurture and identity management
part |30 pages
Religious schooling
chapter |15 pages
The case of the Jewish high school in Berlin
part |22 pages
Developing scales and measures
chapter |10 pages
The Loman Index of Biblical interpretation
chapter |10 pages
Internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the Attitude toward Muslim Proximity Index (AMPI)
part |24 pages
Shaping and testing theories
chapter |12 pages
Promoting positive attitudes towards science and religion among sixth-form pupils
chapter |10 pages
Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief
part |28 pages
Large scale surveys