RT Article
T1 Religious education teachers’ perspectives on character education
JF British Journal of religious education
VO 43
IS 3
SP 349
OP 360
A1 Metcalfe, Jason
A1 Moulin-Stożek, Daniel
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/175959220X
AB This article presents the findings of a qualitative interview study undertaken with RE teachers (n = 30), working in English schools with secondary status. Despite recent policy interest in character education, there is a lacuna of information about the extent RE contributes to character education. The present study focuses on teachers’ perspectives on virtue literacy, a theme identified across participants in response to open-ended prompts about RE, religion and character. The participants in the sample hold different worldviews and work across a range of schools, providing a variety of informative perspectives. There were clear differences between the responses of participants’ from faith and non-faith schools regarding the contribution of RE to pupils’ virtue literacy. These findings mark a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the differences between RE in faith and non-faith schools.
K1 Teachers
K1 Virtue
K1 Character education
K1 Religious Education
DO 10.1080/01416200.2020.1713049