Welcoming unexpected conversations between these different areas, at a time when the religious communities are in or turmoil, and the place of religious education in schools consistently question, the Society for Educational Studies invites abstracts for its 2024 Annual Colloquium to be held at Oriel College, Oxford, September 5th-6th, under the title Religion, Spirituality and Moral Education: informal and formal contexts in dialogue.
The place of religion, spirituality and moral formation and education (RSME) in the lives of children and young are perennially vexed, their form and legitimacy continually the subject of heated debate. Seemingly never resolved, is it possible to define and delineate a form of religious, spiritual and moral education apt for the cultural conditions of the present that is at one and the same time pleasing to all faith communities, as well as to those for whom religion is no longer meaningful or relevant? Does the place of RSME in schools, churches, madrasa and so on, have equal standing and legitimacy? Moreover, even though RSME occurs in formal school contexts of various kinds, and in informal ones, e.g. churches, madrasa, homes etc, rarely do these settings, and the questions surrounding their work, come into dialogue with one another. This symposium invites such conversations between practice and research across these contexts and domains, and that common issues and questions around their respective work be addressed.
Registration for the Colloquium is now closed. Please email SES Administrator Aidan Thompson ([email protected]) with any requests.
Keynote speakers
Nigel Fancourt, University of Oxford – ‘A court in a glass box a thousand kilometres away’: Judicial pedagogies of language in the European Court of Human Rights
Robert Beckford, University of Winchester – Handsworth Revolution(s): Decolonising contemporary gospel music through praxis
Kate Adams, Leeds Trinity University – “It’s not my imagination”: Children’s spiritual voice(s) as a bridge for effective dialogue in religious, spiritual and moral education
Colloquium Programme
