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TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.

TEACHING RELIGION sets the changes in religious education against changes in education as a whole and changes in society. The complex interaction between and influence of religious thinkers, religious educators and politicians is explored, as is the suggestion that how we handle religion within the national education system can offer insights into the sort of society we are and aspire to be.

Sujets

Teaching

Juvenile Nonfiction

EDUCATION

Philosophie et théologie

Religión

Inglaterra

Education Reform Act

General officer

Butler Act

Great Britain

Religion

General

Wales

England

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Publié par	University of Exeter Press
Date de parution	02 mars 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780859899468
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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T E A C H I N G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R E L I G I O N N E W U P DAT E D E D I T I O N

SIXTY years of religious education in England and Wales

Terence Copley

TEACHING RELIGION Sixty Years of Religious Education in England and Wales

NEW UPDATED EDITION

Teaching Religionremains the only book to chart the course of religious education in England and Wales from 1944 up to the present day. It is an indispensable guide for teachers, students and all those interested in the history and politics of religious education.

This fully updated edition, which includes a substantial new chapter covering 1995–2007, sets changes in religious education against a backcloth of social, historical and educational developments. Through a judicious use of documentary sources, including interviews with key policy makers and practitioner experiences, Copley explores the interac tion between religious thinkers, religious educators and politicians.

In examining the transition of religious education from Cinderella status to rising star of the curriculum at a time when institutional religion in the UK experienced massive decline, this book explores the suggestion that how we handle religion within the national education system can offer insights into the sort of society we aspire to be.

Terence Copleyis Professor of Educational Studies (Religious Education) at Oxford Universityand Emeritus Professor of Religious Education, University of Exeter. He was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity in 2008.

Praise for the 1997 edition:

‘. . . a fine work, in which clarity and good humour are combined with scholarship and attention to detail to tell the RE story for the end of the 1990s . . . Students, teachers and colleagues in universities will use this, often with a smile, for many years to come.’ Resource (the journal of the Professional Council for RE)

‘The book is well researched, well written and in a noncombative style. It offers a challenge to all involved in RE, whether politicians, the churches or RE teachers.’ Journal of Beliefs & Values

‘[an] evocative and perceptive text . . .’

Times Education Supplement

‘. . . a formidable survey of the political and social context in which religious education has developed since the landmark Education Act of 1944.’ The Tablet

TEACHING RELIGION Sixty Years of Religious Education in England and Wales

New Updated Edition

Terence Copley

First published in 1997 asTeaching Religion: Fifty years of religious education in England and Walesby University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter, Devon EX4 4QR

www.exeterpress.co.uk

This new edition published 2008

The right of Terence Copley to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

Paperback ISBN 978 0 85989 819 5 Hardback ISBN 978 0 85989 818 8

Typeset in 10/12pt Sabon by Kestrel Data, Exeter

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham

Contents

Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction:The Context 1 The Shadow of War: The 1940s 2 PostWar Reconstruction: The 1950s 3 Iconoclasm in RE: The 1960s 4 Controversies in RE: The 1970s 5 A New Deal for RE: The 1980s 6 Post ERA—RE at the end of another era: The 1990s 7 RE in a New Millennium: The 2000s Postscript:RE: ‘Always an important part of school life’

Appendix 1:Starting out in RE, 1935 Appendix 2:Starting out in RE, 1968 Appendix 3:Starting out in RE, 1995 Appendix 4:Starting out in RE, 2005 Appendix 5:The Withdrawal Clause in RE

Notes Select Glossary Bibliography Index

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1 15 43 61 89 115 153 186 199

213 216 220 223 226

229 241 247 259

Acknowledgements

I have been helped by many people, including some of the key players in the events of the sixtyyear period of this study. Kenneth Baker, Education Secretary at the time of the 1988 Education Reform Act, discussed issues relating to the religious clauses in that Act. References to that interview appear at several points in the text, particularly in Chapter 5. Baronesses Caroline Cox and Nancy Seear answered questions about the 1988 House of Lords debates about RE. Lord Rodney Elton wrote a reminiscence of the passage of the 1988 bill through the House of Lords in a letter dated 21 March 1996. Colin Alves (General Secretary to both the General Synod Board of Education and the National Society and responsible with others for briefing the Bishop of London in the Lords debates) helped me by telephone and by personal interview. He also documented the precise sequence of events in relation to the Anglican response to the original proposals in the bill. Liz Allen, Labour Education Policy Officer at John Smith House, answered questions about Labour and RE in the 1988 Act and provided information about comments by Derek Enright MP on the 1993 Education Act. Charles Clarke MP and Education Secretary from 2002 to 2004 discussed Labour and New Labour attitudes towards RE. I met Sir John Acland several times to discuss the involvement of his late father, Sir Richard Acland, in religious education. Sir John generously allowed me access to various unpublished documents including his father’s political diary for the war years and unpublished autobiographical writing which his father entitled ‘A Political Record’. Sallie Crispin, Kathryn Wright and Emma Collins contributed Appendices 1, 3 and 4 ‘Starting Out in Religious Education, 1935’, ‘1995’ and ‘2006’ respectively. These anecdotal accounts capture the mood of their respective times and together with Appendix 2, ‘Starting Out in Religious Education, 1968’, provide subjective but real ‘windows’ into the period at four critical points. Sadly, Sallie Crispin died in 2007.

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Sir Geoffrey Holland, onetime Permanent Secretary of the DFE, pro vided an insider view of DES/DfEE structures and operations and how RE was administered. John Hull, Emeritus Professor of RE at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Professor of Practical Theology in the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, generously sup plied me with source lists in connection with the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus debate of 1975 and cuttings from his personal collection. TheBath Chroniclesupplied archive material relating to the contro versy that took place over the City of Bath agreed syllabus in 1970. Stephen Orchard, formerly General Secretary of the Christian Education Movement, allowed me access to the CEM archive then in Derby, including Minutes of the Executive and the General Council and discussed the role of CEM or Christian Education as it is now known. Gwen Palmer as Chairperson of the RE Council during the period of the 1988 Act described its work, in particular the lobby for RE before and after 1988. Rheinallt Thomas of Canolfan Genedlaethol Addysg Grefyddol, the Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, was most helpful in identifying some of the key documents in relation to RE in Wales. In preparing the second edition of this book, I am keenly aware that writing recent history is always a hazardous activity. In the course of adding a new chapter for the second edition along with a new conclu sion, I consulted a number of experts so as to reduce what may still be a subjective presentation of the period 1995–2007. I am extremely grate ful to the following for their insights—although I take full responsibility for what I have chosen to write:

Dr Philip Barnes, King’s College, London, Education Department. Lat Blaylock, Editor ofRE Todayand RE adviser. Professor Brian Gates of the University of Cumbria and Chairperson of the RE Council at the time of the second edition of the book. Professor Robert Jackson, University of Warwick Institute of Education, latterly Editor in Chief of theBritish Journal of RE. John Keast, former Principal Manager for RE, Citizenship, PSHE at QCA and now Consultant for RE. Barbara Wintersgill, onetime senior RE officer with the NCC and SCAA, later HMI specialist adviser for RE and now an independent consultant.

Technology, and especially computer technology, moves very rapidly. In preparing the second edition of this book I am most grateful to the

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acknowledgements

All Saints Educational Trust for a grant that enabled the rescanning of the original text so that revision and major additions could be easily undertaken by the writer and publisher. To all these and other unnamed helpers, thanks.