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The Association supports the community of academics in the United Kingdom researching and teaching at the interface of religion and education. For more details please see the Mission Statement.

Membership of the association is for anyone involved in lecturing or researching into Religious Education or involved with initial teacher education in Religious Education, primary or secondary. For more details please download a membership application form.

The AULRE conference 2012 is being held at St Mary's University College, Twickenham from the 13th to the 14th of July.

More details on the conference page.

The AULRE conference 2011 was held at the University of Glasgow from July 4th-5th, 2011.

As part of the reorganisation of the Higher Education Academy, which seeks to enhance academic practice in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, the subject specific Centres such as the Philosophical and Religious Studies Subject Centre will be closing in December, although there will still be subject support and a Subject Lead for PRS, Hugh Pyper (University of Sheffield).

AULRE is helping to continue the work of the Subject Centre by hosting useful documentation from the Subject Centre, such as the Faith Guides and Employability Guides, by including papers on Teaching and Learning in HE in both our conferences and the Journal of Beliefs and Values, and by working on a number of projects which link theology and religious studies in universities with RE in schools.

 
Latest News
  • News Feed about the EB and the currciculum review for RE - more
  • All Party Parlimentary Group on RE: This group has now launched under the chair of Stephen Lloyd (who headed up the eBac campaign). News stories on the BBC, and in the Telegraph, the Independent and more from the Independent; the Press Association and the Huffington Post
  • Sad News: We grieve to give the news that Prof. John Hick has died at the age of 90 - a significant contributor to theology in the C21th he will be missed by family, friends and all those who were inspired by his work. Birmingham University recently set up the John Hick centre for Philosophy of Religion.
  • Debates on Religion and Public Life: A series of debates which will debate the latest research on religion in public life to be held in London between the 8th Feb and 2nd May - more
  • Religion, Education and Critical Realism: Inter-disciplinary dialogue about reality, knowledge and the pursuit of truth: 7–8 September 2012, Oxford Brookes University - conference website
  • LASAR conference 2012: An interesting conference on the interface between science and religion is taking place in Cambridge in May - more
  • The 11th St. Gabriel's weekend - will be held at Wokefield Park conference centre on the weekend of 29th-30th September 2012 - more
  • Conf. on children's Spirituality - 1st – 5th July 2012, UEA - more
  • More Cuts in ITE places 2012/13 - more
  • Seven theses on teacher education and the purpose of education - from the European Wergeland Centre - more
  • New Website and Project: Living Religions - more
  • MA in RE: At the IoE (London) a new MA in education and RE - link
  • Celebrating RE: The compendium album for the Celebrating RE month has now been completed. Thanks to Sharon Artley for her creative work on this - please do circulate the link to your networks - visit the on-line document now.
  • What's worth fighting for? Download Mark Chater's presentation from the RE symposium
  • Bob Jackson on the Ekklesia website on Cameron and Multiculturalism - link
  • Savage Cuts in ITE places 2010 - more
  • Letter to Gove re EB and curriculum from the chair - download
  • Sad News : It is with great saddness that we report the death of Professor Terrance Copley. Terrance made an enormous contribution to academic RE and inspired many teachers of RE during his time at York, Exeter and Oxford.
  • New Year Message: from Prof. Brian Gates chair of the REC - read
  • Congraulations to John Keast OBE - more
  • Letter to Michael Gove from the executive regarding the white paper on education - download
  • AHRC/ERSC research project on young peoples' attitude to religious diversity across the UK - more
  • Letter from schools minister - link
  • Booster Courses in RE

For more on these items and for older items

The Journal of Beliefs & Values maintains a specific interest in the scriptures of the major world faiths, especially their use in teaching within a multi-cultural context, in school, college and university. Particular emphasis is placed on the interface between the theory and practice of religion and education, including research in formative factors like gender, race and religious pluralism. Each edition of the journal will contain four main sections

  • major articles, subject to peer review
  • brief research reports, subject to peer review
  • notes on work in progress, limited to 150 words
  • book reviews

JBV is the official journal of AULRE and members get a discounted subscription as part of their membership.

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