Jackson, Robert, 1945- (2009) The interpretive approach to religious education and the development of a community of practice. In: Religious education research through a community of practice: action research and the interpretive approach. Religious diversity and education in Europe (Bd.13). Waxmann, Münster, pp. 21-31. ISBN 978-3-8309-2158-5

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Abstract

The practitioners and researchers whose work is reported in this book have come together as a community of practice around particular principles and methods of education and research. The interpretive approach to religious education and a given model of action research provided common organising principles for the design, implementation and interpretation of the community’s diverse projects but they did not provide a rigid framework. Instead individual projects and shared reflections became testing grounds for them both. This book documents a development of thinking about the interpretive approach and action research so that the version of both presented in the later chapters will be seen to differ in some respects from the models from which the Warwick community of practice set out. It is therefore appropriate to begin this book with two chapters that explain the project’s starting points, the origins and initial formulations of those models.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology > BV1460 Religious Education H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Communities of practice -- Great Britain, Religious eduction -- Research, Reflective learning -- Great Britain, Critical thinking -- Great Britain
Series Name:	Religious diversity and education in Europe
Publisher:	Waxmann
Place of Publication:	Münster
ISBN:	978-3-8309-2158-5
Book Title:	Religious education research through a community of practice: action research and the interpretive approach
Editor:	Ipgrave, Julia and Jackson, Robert, 1945- and O'Grady, Kevin, 1962-
Date:	2009
Number:	Bd.13
Number of Pages:	11
Page Range:	pp. 21-31
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/2928

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