1. Teaching and Learning in Religious Education: Learning Study in Teacher Education Elina Wright All Saints Saxton Research Fellow in Education elina.wright@regents.ox.ac.uk

2. 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

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

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

5. 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. 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. 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

8. 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

9. 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?