Prayer spaces in schools: a subversion of policy implementation?

Stern, Julian; Shillitoe, Rachael

doi:10.1080/13617672.2019.1596046

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“…Thirdly, there are difficulties related to multiculturality, as the culture of children and teenagers can generate different inner needs, which are expressed in diverse ways (Canda and Furman 2010;Stern and Shillitoe 2019). Religious identity, which is a dynamic issue that changes thanks to the influence of cultural diversity, is still maintained, in some cases and especially among teenagers, despite living in a multicultural society.…”

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Developing Interiority in Children and Teenagers: Difficulties Perceived by Workers and Strategies to Address Them

2021

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Educating interiority is a fundamental aspect of development and is of the utmost importance in childhood and adolescence because it helps to develop the faculties that allow them to experience life to the fullest. In this project, we aimed to analyze the difficulties that social workers perceive when educating interiority and identify the main strategies that they use to face these difficulties. A mixed questionnaire, with quantitative and qualitative data, was designed to this end, and answered by 128 professionals who work with children and teenagers. The results showed that educators have restrictive beliefs regarding difficulties, which do not always correspond to the real difficulties, which limit their attempts to educate the interior dimension. The difficulties found include those related to the characteristics of the group of children and teenagers and others linked to the low level of education on interiority, the absence of a personal inner life, and the lack of methodological tools to approach this matter.

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Developing Interiority in Children and Teenagers: Difficulties Perceived by Workers and Strategies to Address Them

2021

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“…To focus primarily on fidelity to policy as the best route to implementation has, however, been challenged by others who recognize the inevitable complexity of policy implementation in education. 7 Following Lipsky's 8 notion of "street-level bureaucrats," Stern and Shillitoe, 9 for example, show how RE teachers use tactics to "subvert and negotiate" education policy on religious and spiritual development, with positive effects. Fancourt 10 too understands policy in religious education as something that is enacted through social processes that operate in different contexts.…”

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World Religions in Religious Education in Northern Ireland: A Policy Implementation Analysis using Strategic Action Field Theory

Nelson¹,

Yang

2021

Religion & Education

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This article analyses the implementation of a policy that introduced the teaching of world religions in religious education in Northern Ireland. Using a policy implementation evaluation framework informed by strategic action field (SAF) theory we assess the effectiveness of the policy intervention by exploring teachers' descriptions of their practice. We discover that there is evidence of teacher buy-in to the policy, but very significant variation in the quality of implementation and reasons for this are explored. It is concluded that the policy evaluation tool developed here is likely to have value in assessing the implementation of curriculum policy in other contexts.

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Prayer in Schools: In Search of a New Paradigm

Stern

Kohn

2023

Reimagining the Landscape of Religious Education

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Prayer spaces in schools: a subversion of policy implementation?

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Cited by 3 publications

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Developing Interiority in Children and Teenagers: Difficulties Perceived by Workers and Strategies to Address Them

Developing Interiority in Children and Teenagers: Difficulties Perceived by Workers and Strategies to Address Them

World Religions in Religious Education in Northern Ireland: A Policy Implementation Analysis using Strategic Action Field Theory

Prayer in Schools: In Search of a New Paradigm

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