ABSTRACT
From 1966 to 1968 the Agreed Syllabus passed through a period of creativity. The Syllabuses of the West Riding, Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, Lancashire and the Inner London Education Authority had a common emphasis on the needs and interests of the child, and suggested new ways of relating everyday life to religious education. The Cornwall Syllabus can be classed with the 1966— 1968 group, since, although good of its kind, it represents no significant advance. Bradford produced an important supplement to the 1966 West Riding Syllabus, Guide to Religious Education in a Multifaith Community. And have the Birmingham Syllabus and the teachers’ Handbook. Religious education has an important role to play in the preservation of good community relations in Britain. The Birmingham authority is the first to recognize through a completely new Agreed Syllabus that the Local Education Authority is responsible for the religious education not only of the Christian child but also of the Islamic child.
