ICCS news:
In the context of the research project ‘What Covid-19 reveals to RE specialists’ the research team of five women from five countries (Ireland, Wales, Germany, Austria, Hungary) have published a new article. Among them are Tania ap Siôn and Bianca Kappelhoff from the ICCS board as well as three colleagues from the EFTRE network, with which ICCS cooperates in the context of CoGREE.
The article with the title Titel How does the social unrest of 2020/21 affect the teaching of Religious Education? Findings of a European study on the effects of the COVID-19 period was published in the internationally renowned Journal of Beliefs & Values.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought various issues such as social cohesion, social inequalities, climate change and racism to the forefront. Religious Education (RE) teachers were confronted with questions as to how and if they respond to such issues in their teaching. This study investigates the research question How do RE specialists see the effects of social issues on RE in a challenging time? using the data analysis of a 2022 European qualitative study, which explored what COVID-19 revealed to RE specialists about their subject. Regarding the effects of social unrest, a frequency analysis of social issues identified in the survey responses is provided, followed by analysis and discussion of perceived effects of social issues on RE. Conclusions relate to commonalities and differences across responses and their potential contributions to discourse concerning understandings of RE.
Link
The article can currently be found on the website of the Journal of Beliefs & Values, behind the paywall. After 18 months the article will be available in open access.
Literature quote
ap Siôn, T., Cullen, S., Danner, S., Kappelhoff, B., & Kodácsy-Simon, E. (2024). How does the social unrest of 2020/21 affect the teaching of Religious Education? Findings of a European study on the effects of the COVID-19 period. Journal of Beliefs & Values, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2024.2409545