This book highlights the issues that invariably confront those involved with the teaching of Religious Education. Questioning the assumptions underlying the legal requirements governing the teaching of RE it raises questions of rationale.

Part 1: The Nature of Religious Education Within the School Curriculum 1. The Statutory Requirement for Religious Education 1988 - 2000: Religious, Political and Social Influences 2. A Rationale for Religious Education 3. Religious Education in Church Schools 4. Commitment and Indoctrination: A Dilemma for RE? 5. Assessing Achievement in Religious Education from Early Years to A-Level 6. Inspecting Religious Education: Can Inspections Improve Religious Education? 7. Religious Education in the European Context Part 2: Religious Education in the Classroom Development Through Religious Education? 9. Ethnography and Religious Education 10. Not 'Either - Or', More a Case of 'Both - And': Towards an Inclusive Gender Strategy for Religious Education 11. Education for All: Religious Education and Pupils with Special Needs: A Dialogue 12. The Birth of a New Religious Studies at Post-16 Part 3: Religious Education and the Wider Curriculum 13. The Contribution of Religious Education to Whole School Initiatives 14. Is Religious Education and Ethical and Moral Debate a Contradiction? 15. Embodying the Spirit - Realising RE's Potential in the Spiritual Dimension of the Curriculum 16. Religious Education and Collective Worship: Bedfellows or Just Good Friends? 17. World Religions: The Boundaries of Belief and Unbelief