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Podcasts that seek to go deeper on matters science, religion and faith

Here are some comments about two recent podcasts well worth listening to if you are working in the field of science and religion Nick Spencer and Bethany Sollereder The first, the shorter of the two, is Diving Deep Into Science … Continue reading

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Religious Education for a time of Existential Threat

A shortened audio recording with slides of inaugural professorial lecture ‘Religious Education for a time of Existential Threat’, given on May 11th 2022 at Canterbury Christ Church University. To find out more visit nicer.org.uk and bobbowie.com. You can book our conference for £25 … Continue reading

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After world religions: a conversation with Dr David Lewin

(cross posted with the NICER blog) I am really pleased to be able to publish this special Advent conversation with Dr David Lewin of Strathclyde university. I had been wanting to talk to David for a while, ever since hearing … Continue reading

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Research ethics, rule-following and schools

I recently reviewed an article reporting some research conducted in a school by teachers. One of the issues I feed back on was the school’s rules round research and how the author wrote about research ethics. The approach was to … Continue reading

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Cox questions Bowie (reposted)

Dawn Cox, Subject leader for RS in a secondary school in Essex and familiar contributor online with her highly regarded blog, has interviewed me on a Teams chat. She asks me great questions about hermeneutics, disciplinarity and texts in the … Continue reading

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COVID 19 has reversed our values and vices: Was Aristotle right and Plato wrong? Does morality need wealth?

In my professional communities, certain words tend to be viewed as out and out goods (intrinsically good – good in and of themselves we would say in the ethics business). The pre Covid 19 virtues. These words include autonomy, diversity, … Continue reading

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From face to face to online in one weekend

“Never has so much been done, so quickly, to educate so many. Big shout out for the half a million teachers who taught 9 million UK children online today in what will go down as the most extraordinary education evolution … Continue reading

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The new context

My household has a secondary Maths teacher, two children both of secondary age and me, a university researcher in Education. The schools closed on Friday and last week my research centre moved to virtual working. The children have been studying … Continue reading

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Reposting Every child deserves an opportunity at school to discover the language for making sense of their world

By Dr Robert A Bowie First posted here: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/nicer/every-child-deserves-an-opportunity-at-school-to-discover-the-language-for-making-sense-of-their-world/ The Final Report of the Commission on Religious Education, which was established in 2016 to review the legal, educational and policy frameworks for Religious Education (RE) has now been published. This is … Continue reading

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Reposting “A moment in English Religious Education history”

A reposting of the blog I wrote recently on my university blog site The final report of the Commission for Religious Education is about to be published. The independent commission was established by the Religious Education Council, the lead organisation and … Continue reading

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