Priorities In Religious Education

Brenda Watson, a former teacher of History, Music and RE, was for eleven years on the staff of Didsbury College of Education. She later became Director of the Farmington Institute in Oxford, and now works in a semi-independent capacity as a consultant to the Farmington Trust. Her book, Education and Belief, was published in 1988 and she is currently preparing one on religious education for Longman's Effective Teacher Series. As Chair of ARE (Association for RE) she was instrumental in the formation of the PCFRE (Professional Council for RE) which emphasizes a professional view of RE.

• Introduction; Part 1 Educational Perspectives on Religion; Chapter 1 First Steps in Religious Education, John Wilson; Chapter 2 Whitehead Revisited—Religion and Education, Jack Priestley; Chapter 3 ‘Heaven in Ordinarie’, Nicola Slee; Part 2 Faith-Perspectives on Religious Education; Chapter 4 Identify the Educators, Richard Wilkins; Chapter 5 The Religious Approach to Religious Education, Syed Ali Ashraf; Chapter 6 A Look at the Christian Schools Movement, Bernadette O’Keeffe; Chapter 7 Roots in Religious Education, Kevin Nichols; Chapter 8 Unity and Diversity, Edward Hulmes; Part 3 Focus on the Classroom; Chapter 9 Teaching about Issues of Science and Religion, Michael Poole; Chapter 10 The Junior School Child, Elizabeth Ashton; Chapter 11 Teaching Discernment, Michael Donley;