Teaching and Learning in Religious Education: Learning Study in Teacher Education Elina Wright All Saints Saxton Research Fellow in Education

Context and Participants 1) University-Based Teacher Education One-year The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course Teacher Educators Student Teachers 2) School-Based Teacher Education School placement during the PGCE course 3-4 Student Teachers Teacher Mentors One group of secondary students/each student teacher

Teaching-Learning Process SubjectPlanning ImplementingEvaluating 3 Research on teaching and learning in RE

Learning from the Learners 1)Teacher Educators 2)Student Teachers 3)Teacher Mentors 4)Secondary Students  Focus: What is (to be) learnt?

5 What is to be learned? 1) Planning How is learning brought about? 2) Teaching What has been learned? 3) Reviewing Pre-understandings: 1) Teacher Educators 2) Student teachers Teaching-Learning interaction during the PGCE course Post-understandings and reflections on practice: 1) Teacher educators 2) Student teachers Research Aims: 1) University-based teacher education

6 What is to be learned? 1) Planning How is learning brought about? 2) Teaching What has been learned? 3) Reviewing Pre-understandings:  Student teachers  Teacher mentors 3) Secondary students Teaching-Learning interaction Post-understandings: 1) Student teachers 2) Teacher mentors 3) Secondary students Research Aims: 2) School-based teacher education

7 Methods What is to be learned? 1) Planning How is learning brought about? 2) Teaching What has been learned? 3) Reviewing  Video-/audio- recorded interviews  Students’ written responses/essays  Lesson plans  Video recorded Classroom observation  Video-stimulated Recall Interviews with teachers  Students’ written responses

Research Ethics and Dissemination Confidentiality and anonymity Research approved by Departmental Research Ethics Committee (DREC) of the University of Oxford. Research to be published in academic articles and a book 8

Writing task (30 min.) Think of a situation in which are talking to someone who is not familiar with Religious Education. How would you explain what Religious Education is and is not about?