ERIC Number: EJ1343753
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0007-1005
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8527
The Commission on Religious Education -- A Response to L. Philip Barnes
Cooling, Trevor
British Journal of Educational Studies, v70 n1 p103-118 2022
In a recent article, L. Philip Barnes critiques the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) Final Report by scrutinising its text and by responding to my interpretation of that text. His particular, but not exclusive, focus is CoRE's proposal that the idea of worldview should be central to RE. His conclusion is that: 'The collective force of these criticisms counsels against implementing the proposals of CoRE. Religious education needs to look elsewhere than to a worldview curriculum to overcome its current travails'. This article responds by arguing that Barnes fails to justify his conclusion because his critique does not meet the standards of a fair and responsible treatment of his chosen focal texts. In particular, it misrepresents and misinterprets the CoRE Report and overlooks the alternative interpretation that I and others offered.
Descriptors: Religious Education, World Views, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Laws, Advisory Committees, Reports, Curriculum Development, Misconceptions
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Language: English
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