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Religious Education and Knowledge Symposium
The Education and Religion Special Interest group, UCL Institute of Education, and Culham St. Gabriel’s, are pleased to host a Symposium on Religious Education and Knowledge. This will take place at the UCL Institute of Education on May 3rd 2018, 5.30-7.30pm in room 828. The Symposium is particularly timely in light of the recent TES report in which 'Business leaders call for less rote learning in schools', which is useful a reminder of the importance of considering the place of knowledge in our schools. The Symposium is free to attend and open to all. We are delighted to confirm that the speakers at the event will be: Professor Michael Young (Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education) Dr David Aldridge (Reader in Education at Brunel University) Philip Robinson (Religious Education Advisor, Catholic Education Service) Mary Myatt (Education Advisor)
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6/1/2018
The Jagdish Gundara Memorial Symposium: Meeting the Challenge - Signposts for the Future of Interculturalism - Dr Al-Karim Datoo
Global Challenges to Social Justice and the Future of Intercultural Education In honour of the memory of Professor Jagdish Gundara (1938–2016) First Director of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL IOE Exploring some of the immediate and recurring challenges to the achievement of social justice in a global context and their ramifications for intercultural education. Specifically, issues concerned with truth, equity, social division and diversity will be highlighted as a backdrop to a discussion of signposts for positive intercultural engagement at all levels of education. Recent political events and continuing violence and warfare, together with migration and refugee ‘crises’, contribute to an ongoing climate of fear and reaction there is also an impetus to engage with more imaginative perspectives in the pursuit of increased global justice. Aiming at a cross-disciplinary approach with contributions from those involved with pedagogy, adult learning and teacher educat
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2/19/2018
Dialogue Alone - Teaching Solitude and Loneliness Through Religious Education and Spiritual Development
Dialogue Alone Teaching Solitude and Loneliness Through Religious Education and Spiritual Development Prof Julian Stern York St John University
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2/2/2018
What should religious education in the public sphere  seek to achieve?
Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education (CREME) Freedom and the Ideas of Hannah Arendt: What should religious education in the public sphere seek to achieve? “seeking to make visible an option that may have been missed – or under-considered” Patricia Hannam County Inspector/Adviser RE, History & Philosophy Hampshire County Council
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10/13/2017
Where ignorant armies clash by night: A critical examination of the Politics of RE
Where ignorant armies clash by night: A critical examination of the Politics of RE Dr Mark Chater Drawing on three major RE reports, this seminar will present and analyse the landscape of RE practice. It will claim that policy discourse - social cohesion, the Prevent duty and `British Values' - has become a contested locus, a 'darkling plain ... where ignorant armies clash by night', and that the 1944 and 1988 policy settlements for RE are now unjustifiable. What do we, as a nation, expect our young people to know and understand about religion and belief? How can we ensure that they are achieving this? The intensity of debate around these concerns is shown in three major RE reports, published in the last year alone. The answers are both educationally and politically important. Drawing on these reports and other sources, including Ofsted inspection evidence, ethnographic studies of RE teachers, and policy papers, this seminar will evaluate the shifting terrain of RE practice. The t
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9/6/2017
Panel 4: Worship and learning in 21st century seminaries
Symposium on the Comparative Study of Religious Seminaries Jointly organised by The Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education, UCL Institute of Education, and The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford. Panel 4: Worship and learning in 21st century seminaries Worship, Prayer and Learning Prof. John Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Christian Education, Liverpool Hope University and Visiting Professor (Theology and Education), Newman University. A renewed model of traditional Islamic studies for the 21st century Shamsudduha Muhammad and Ibrahim Lawson, Ebrahim College Revisiting the Orientalist Seminary: Other Accounts of Rationalism Dr. Arun Rasiah, Assistant Professor of Liberal studies at Names University, Oakland, California Concluding remarks and vote of thanks Dr. Richard McCallum, The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford
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2/24/2017
Panel 3: New trajectories in Islamic seminary education
Symposium on the Comparative Study of Religious Seminaries Jointly organised by The Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education, UCL Institute of Education, and The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford. Panel 3: New trajectories in Islamic seminary education A Tale of Two Colleges: ‘Rehab’ and Rewriting the Islamic Curriculum Alyaa Ebbiary, PhD Candidate, SOAS New Approaches to Religious Seminary Education? On Leadership and Civic Discourse in Islamic e-Learning Alessandra Palange, PhD Candidate, UCL Institute of Education
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2/23/2017
Panel 2: Inside the seminary
Symposium on the Comparative Study of Religious Seminaries Jointly organised by The Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education, UCL Institute of Education, and The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford. Panel 2: Inside the seminary Inside a British darul uloom Haroon Sidat, Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University Transmitting Faith: A Study of Christian and Jewish Seminaries and their Clergy Austin Tiffany, The Woolf Institute, Cambridge University
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2/23/2017
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