Does Religious Education as an Examination Subject Work to Promote Community Cohesion? An Empirical Enquiry among 14- to 15-Year-Old Adolescents in England and Wales

Autor/inn/en	Francis, Leslie J.; ap Siôn, Tania; McKenna, Ursula; Penny, Gemma
Titel	Does Religious Education as an Examination Subject Work to Promote Community Cohesion? An Empirical Enquiry among 14- to 15-Year-Old Adolescents in England and Wales
Quelle	In: British Journal of Religious Education, 39 (2017) 3, S.303-316 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-6200
DOI	10.1080/01416200.2015.1128392
Schlagwörter	Religious Education; Community Coordination; Role of Education; Role of Religion; Geographic Location; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Institutional Characteristics; Affective Behavior; Religious Cultural Groups; Beliefs; Extraversion Introversion; Social Integration; Social Attitudes; Adolescent Attitudes; Correlation; Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Personality Measures; Regression (Statistics); United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales); Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Bildungsauftrag; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Belief; Glaube; Soziale Integration; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Korrelation; Sekundarbereich; Ausland; Fragebogen; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	This study begins by examining the way in which, in both England and Wales, Religious Education has become implicated in political discussion regarding the role of education in promoting community cohesion. The relationship between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity (as an affective indicator of community cohesion) is then explored among 3052 14- to 15-year-old students. After controlling for contextual factors (school type and geographical location), personal factors (sex and age), psychological factors (psychoticism, neuroticism and extraversion) and religious factors (Christian affiliation, worship attendance, personal prayer and belief in God), a small but significant positive association was found between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity. This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view that Religious Education works to promote community cohesion, although the wider debate that the community cohesion agenda has generated among religious educators needs further exploration. (As Provided).
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