Why it is time to embrace non-confessional RE in Catholic schools: some reflections from the English context

This article presents an analysis of why advocates of RE in English Catholic schools have managed to avoid seriously engaging with confessional Religious Education. The arguments presented here are set against the context of curriculum change in RE with the impending introduction of the Religious Ed...

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Autor principal: Whittle, Sean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Nature Singapore 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9607820/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40839-022-00185-7
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spelling pubmed-96078202022-10-28 Why it is time to embrace non-confessional RE in Catholic schools: some reflections from the English context Whittle, Sean j. relig. educ. Article This article presents an analysis of why advocates of RE in English Catholic schools have managed to avoid seriously engaging with confessional Religious Education. The arguments presented here are set against the context of curriculum change in RE with the impending introduction of the Religious Education Directory in England and Wales (in September 2025). In this time of curriculum change and innovation, an argument is developed in favour of embracing a non-confessional account of RE in Catholic schools. Springer Nature Singapore 2022-10-27 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9607820/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40839-022-00185-7 Text en © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Australian Catholic University 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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