Schooling Indifference

<p>This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts.</p><p></p><p>On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this educational framing is no longer plausible in the light of new theoretical developments within the academy. A new educational approach to RE is outlined that challenges students to think and practice differently. This includes a ‘becoming ethnographer’ approach that can acknowledge socio-material relations and engage the broader literacies necessary for such study.</p><p></p><p>Part One examines how RE has been constructed as a discipline in historical and spatial terms that abstract its study from material concerns. Part Two offers some new starting points: Spinoza Foucault and feminist theory that differently foreground context and relationality and 'Islam' read as a discursive located tradition rather than as 'world view'. Finally Part Three proposes a new trajectory for research and practice in RE with the aim of re-engaging schools colleges and universities in a dialogue that promotes thinking and practice that – as educational - is continually in touch with the need to be critical open-ended and ethically justifiable.</p>