DRAFT
ISREV XIX, York, 2014: Programme
Sunday 27th July
9:30:00-12:00
ISREV Committee Meeting
13:00-18.15
Seminar Registration
18:30
Welcoming Dinner
20:30
Refreshments and Social Activity
ISREV XIX – Programme – 1
Monday 28th July
08.00-09:00
Breakfast
09:00-10:30
Plenary Presentation Chair: Gloria Durka
Presenter: Kerstin von Brömssen
Title: Is there a place for intersectionality in research in religious and
values education?
Respondent: Joachim Willems
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15
Collegial Paper Session 1
Room
Slot 1a Chair: Henrik Simojoki
Presenter 1: Peta Goldburg
Title: Asking new questions of old texts: Feminist biblical interpretation
in religious education
Respondent 1: Glynis Parker
Presenter 2: Elisabeth Naurath
Title: Gender justice as a challenge for religious education
Respondent 2: Geir Skeie
Room
Slot 1b Chair: Jenny Berglund
Presenter 1: Elisabeth Arweck
Title: Religious Diversity in the UK: Do 13–16-Year-Old Pupils
Perceive it as a Site of Multiple Intersections?
Respondent 1: Valerie Torres
Presenter 2:Ina Ter-Avest & Cok Bakker
Title: Intersectionality of school organisation, school identity and the
educational task of the school
Respondent 2: Thomas Schlag
Room
Slot 1c Chair: David Lifmark
Presenter 1: Nigel Fancourt
Title: Human rights, religion and education: pedagogical assumptions
of the European court
Respondent 1: Peter Schreiner
Presenter 2: Cornelia Roux
Title: Can Human Rights Education counter better the intersectionality
between beliefs and ethnicity?
Respondent 2: Karin Sporre
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Room
Slot 1d Chair: Reinhold Boschki
Presenter 1: Marilyn Naidoo
Title: Religious diversity in Catholic schools in South Africa
Respondent 1: Halldis Breidlid
Presenter 2: Richard Rymarz
Title: But We Are Different Aren’t We? Eastern Catholic Students in
Catholic Schools in Alberta: Some Implication for Religious Education
Respondent 2: Gerdien Bertram-Troost
Room
Slot 1e Chair: Fyodor Kozyrev
Presenter 1: Camilla Stabel Jørgensen
Title: Pupils’ texts and contexts: A multiple case study of pupils’ writing
in Norwegian RE
Respondent 1: John Valk
Presenter 2: Stephen McKinney
Title: Catholic schools in Scotland and Sectarianism
Respondent 2: Tove Nicolaisen
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15
Collegial Paper Session 2
Room
Slot 2a Chair: Coby Speelman
Presenter 1: Henrik Simojoki
Title: Beirut in Berlin? Inter-religious Education at the Intersection of
the Global and the Local
Respondent 1: Signild Risenfors
Presenter 2: Mualla Selçuk & John Valk
Title: An Islamic Worldview: Religion in a Modern, Secular, Democratic
State – Project Update
Respondent 2: Kerstin von Brömssen
Room
Slot 2b Chair: Mark Hillis
Symposium title: The impact of Christian ethos on teaching and
learning: investigating the implications of implementing a Christianethos approach to pedagogy in English church secondary school
Presenter 1: Trevor Cooling
Presenter 2: Elisabeth Green
Presenter 3: Lynn Revell
Respondent 1: Hans-Günter Heimbrock
Room
Slot 2c Chair: Karlo Meyer
Presenter 1: Yaacov Katz
Title: Rabbi Nachman of Breslev and Cognitive Psychology: A
Concept Paper
Respondent 1: Mario D’Souza
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Presenter 2: Wilna Meijer
Title: Making the most of surprise in order to counter illusions of
familiarity. An educationalist reads cutting edge cognitive psychology
Respondent 2: Julian Stern
Room
Slot 2d Chair: Brian Gates
Presenter 1: Martin Rothgangel
Title: Between Contrast Identity and Identity Loss. The Potential of
Romans 9-11 against Anti-Judaism from a Psychological Point of View
Respondent 1: Peta Goldburg
Presenter 2: Saila Poulter
Title: From the Citizenship of God’s Kingdom to the Liberal
Cosmopolitanism? (Critical) Historical Analysis of Finnish Religious
Education
Respondent 2: Jeff Astley
Room
Slot 2e Chair: Richard Rymarz
Presenter 1: Elisabet Haakedal
Title: Project group work in religion and worldview courses: A
comparative pedagogical study of project group work on (members of)
local faith and worldview communities by lower secondary pupils and
first year university students
Respondent 1: Friedrich Schweitzer
Presenter 2: Thorsten Knauth
Title: Interreligious Learning in the Contextual Setting of Confessional
RE. Interim Results of a Qualitative Study in the Rhine-Ruhr-Area in
Germany
Respondent 2: Pauline Kollontai
15:15-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:45
Collegial Paper Session 3
Room
Slot 3a Chair: Ina Ter-Avest
Presenter 1: Shan Simmonds
Title: Sitting at the cross-roads: What happends to curriculum-making
when female teachers must teach about the very same multiple
intersections of injustice that they temselves experience?
Respondent 1: Nigel Fancourt
Presenter 2: Dzintra Ilisko
Title: Life stories of women academicians: multiple interlocking
systems of oppression
Respondent 2: David Lifmark
ISREV XIX – Programme – 4
Room
Slot 3b Chair: Dörthe Vieregge
Presenter 1: Hideko Omori
Title: Christian Preschool Education Toward New Intersections in
Modern Japan
Respondent 1: Cornelia Roux
Presenter 2: Gunnar Gunnarsson
Title: When RE becomes a part of Social Studies Education – The
development of RE in the Icelandic curricula
Respondent 2: Cok Bakker
Room
Slot 3c Chair: Signild Risenfors
Symposium title: Anti-Racist Education and Religious Education: The
Legacy of Elie Wiesel
Presenter 1: Zehavit Gross
Presenter 2: Reinhold Boschki
Respondent 1: Wolfram Weisse
Room
Slot 3d Chair: Petro Du Preez
Presenter 1: Jon Magne Vestøl
Title: On teaching what cannot be said. Reflections on the role of the
unsayable in religious education
Respondent 1: Bernd Schröder
Presenter 2: Gloria Durka
Title: Teaching values in a divided world: The power and possibilitites
of art
Respondent 2: Marie von der Lippe
Room
Slot 3e Chair: Phra Nicholas Thanissaro
Presenter 1: Shira Iluz & Yaacov Katz
Title: Learning Standards in a Non-Standard System: Mapping
Students' Knowledge and Comprehension in Ultra-Orthodox Talmud
Torahs
Respondent 1: Manfred Pirner
Presenter 2: Judith Everington
Title: Bridging Separate Communities: the aspirations and experiences
of minority ethnic RE teachers in England’.
Respondent 2: Leona English
18.00
Book launch
18.30
Dinner
20.30
Refreshments and Social Activity
ISREV XIX – Programme – 5
Tuesday 29th July
08:00-09:00
Breakfast
09:00-10:30
Plenary Presentation Chair: Leslie Francis
Presenter: Marian de Souza
Title: Belonging and Displacement – Recurring undercurrents in a
world splintered by religious diversity: Implications for critical religious
education.
Respondent: Bruce Grelle
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15
Collegial Paper Session 4
Room
Slot 4a Chair: Geir Skeie
Presenter 1: Yisrael Rich
Title: Does Religious Schooling Affect Students' Religious Identity?
Implications for Gender and Ethnic Differences
Respondent 1: Henrik Simojoki
Presenter 2: Signild Risenfors & Kerstin von Brömssen
Title: In different worlds: on religion in students' places/spaces
Respondent 2: Glynis Parker
Room
Slot 4b Chair: Heid Leganger-Krogstad
Symposium title: Believing and Belonging. Personal and collective
factors of RE teachers religious orientation in a bi-national perspective
Presenter 1: Hans-Günter Heimbrock
Presenter 2: Felix Kerntke
Respondent 1: David Lankshear
Room
Slot 4c Chair: John Valk
Presenter 1: Joyce Miller
Title: The ‘Rushdie Affair’, Islamic identity and religious education: a
Bradford perspective
Respondent 1: Jenny Berglund
Presenter 2: Friedrich Schweitzer
Title: Images of God in Inter-religius Education—The Example of
Christianity and Islam
Respondent 2: Mualla Selçuk
Room
Slot 4d Chair: Trevor Cooling
Presenter 1: Coby Speelman
Title: Worldview-learning by discovery. On the way to renewed
worldview-education in primary schools
Respondent 1: Mia Matilainen
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Presenter 2: Bas Van den Berg
Title: Can you imagine?
Respondent 2: Petro Du Preez
Room
Slot 4e Chair: Geert Franzenburg
Presenter 1: Marie von der Lippe & Trine Anker
Title: Religion and dialogue in modern societies: Dialogue in times of
societal crisis
Respondent 1: Elisabeth Arweck
Presenter 2: Ina Ter-Avest
Title: Intersectionality of (historical) context and principals’ biographies
in a pedagogy of encounter
Respondent 2: Elisabet Haakedal
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15
Collegial Paper Session 5
Room
Slot 5a Chair: Michael Buchanan
Presenter 1: Bernd Schröder
Title: Coping with Diversity – theological foundations of pedagogical
concepts. A Christian (Protestant) perspective
Respondent 1: Kari Flornes
Presenter 2: Thomas Schlag
Title: The contribution of theology to a non-confessional interreligious
education at school: Hermeneutical reflections and concrete examples
Respondent 2: Richard Rymarz
Room
Slot 5b Chair: Iana Poliakova
Presenter 1: Peter Schreiner
Title: PISA, Power and RE. Theoretical and empirical observations on
the emergence of global educational governance and its impact on
Religious Education
Respondent 1: Robert Jackson
Presenter 2: Mia Matilainen
Title: Student Teachers’opinions of the RE delivery model in Finland
Respondent 2: Jon Magne Vestøl
Room
Slot 5c Chair: Hideko Omori
Presenter 1: Glynis Parker
Title: Gender Roles: Are Black South African attitudes changing?
Respondent 1: Denise Cush
Presenter 2: Joachim Willems
Title: Interreligious encounters, gender, class, and ethnicity. Empirical
insights into preconditions of interreligious learning
Respondent 2: Heid Leganger-Krogstad
ISREV XIX – Programme – 7
Room
Slot 5d Chair: Mario D’Souza
Presenter 1: Phra Nicholas Thanissaro
Title: Buddhist adolescents’ attitudes to their own religion and
Religious Education: preliminary quantitative findings
Respondent 1: Oddrun Bråten
Presenter 2: Martin Ubani
Title: Beyond surface. Religion and multiculturalism in a Finnish school
Respondent 2: Felix Kerntke
Room
Slot 5e
Symposium title: The Religious Diversity Project: The quantitative
approach (session 1)
Presenter 1: Mandy Robbins
Presenter 2: Ursula McKenna
Presenter 3: Leslie Francis
15:15-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:45
Collegial Paper Session 6
Room
Slot 6a
Symposium title: The Religious Diversity Project: The quantitative
approach (session 2)
Presenter 4: Peter Neil
Presenter 5: Tania ap Sion
Presenter 6: Gemma Penny
Room
Slot 6b Chair: Halldis Breidlid
Presenter 1: Wolfram Weisse
Title: Youth Theology in a dialogical and interreligious perspective
Respondent 1: Doug Blomberg
Presenter 2: Julian Stern
Title: Dialogue Alone: Teaching Solitude and Loneliness Through
Religious Education and Spiritual Development
Respondent 2: Reinhold Boschki
Room
Slot 6c Chair: Philip Barnes
Presenter 1: Hanan Alexander
Title: How Maximal or Minimal? How Thick or Thin? Religious
Education in Diverse Democracies
Respondent 1: Robert Bowie
Presenter 2: Kari Flornes
Title: “Learning and living democracy” in the framework of RE in Initial
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Teacher education in Norway
Respondent 2: Lāsma Latsone
Room
Slot 6d Chair: Nigel Fancourt
Presenter 1: Mark Hillis
Title: Intergenerational Learning in Christian religious education: why
some familiar voices deserve a fresh audience.
Respondent 1: Alma Lanser
Presenter 2: Jun Fukaya
Title: The Non-Church Movement and Bushidō: Why Schools and
Private Classes were deemed better than Churches for the Japanese
Christian Mission
Respondent 2: Thorsten Knauth
Room
Slot 6e Chair: Karin Sporre
Presenter 1: Pauline Kollontai
Title: Exploring Models of Religious Education in the Search for
Building Values of Mutual Understanding, Empathy and Critical
Dialogue: Perspectives from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Respondent 1: Bruce Grelle
Presenter 2: Geert Franzenburg
Title: Displaced Values
Respondent 2: Wilna Meijer
16:45-17:15
Break
18:30
Dinner
20:30
Refreshments and Social Activity
ISREV XIX – Programme – 9
Wednesday 30th July
08:00-09:00
Breakfast
09:00-10:30
Plenary Presentation Chair: Reinhold Mokrosch
Presenter: John M Hull
Title: Through the many to the one: diverse human worlds and the
path to educational understanding.
Respondent: Dörthe Vieregge
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11.00-12.15
Collegial Paper Session 7
Room
Slot 7a Chair: John Fisher
Presenter 1: Michael Buchanan
Title: Policy Enhancing RE Leadership Learning and RE Leadership
Learning Influencing Policy and Process
Respondent 1: Mandy Robbins
Presenter 2: Halldis Breidlid
Title: Literacy and meta-consciousness among students in a
multicultural lower secondary school classroom in Norway
Respondent 2: Ina Ter-Avest
Room
Slot 7b Chair: Doug Blomberg
Presenter 1: Jonathan Doney
Title: In dialogue with Althusser: Ideological State Apparatus and its
intersection with English Religious Education
Respondent 1: Stefan Altmeyer
Presenter 2: Petro Du Preez
Title: Changing discourses of values: Curriculum-making for an ethic
of truths in Religion Education
Respondent 2: Marian de Souza
Room
Slot 7c Chair: Elisabeth Arweck
Presenter 1: Iana Poliakova
Title: Religious Education in Ukraine
Respondent 1: Arto Kallioniemi
Presenter 2: Yaacov Yaablon
Title: School Rabbis as a Help Resource for Students in Israeli
Religious Schools
Respondent 2: Norman Richardson
Room
Slot 7d Chair: Valerie Torres
Presenter 1: Geir Skeie
Title: Life competencies in Swedish schools – a secularised version of
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religious education?
Respondent 1: Saila Poulter
Presenter 2: Karlo Meyer
Title: Teaching about Funerals of Jews, Christians and Muslims –
Introduction to a Sensitive Dialogical, Video-supported Project in
German Religious Education
Respondent 2: Şeyma Zarife Arslan
Room
Slot 7e Chair: Zehavit Gross
Presenter 1: Reinhold Mokrosch
Title: “Love your enemies! Do not resist one who is evil!” How do boys
and girls react to the sermon on the Mount?
Respondent 1: Gloria Durka
Presenter 2: David Lankshear
Title: Church going children and the schools that they attend
Respondent 2: Olga Schihalejev
12:15-13:00
Lunch
13:00
Outing
18:30
Book Launch
19:00
Dinner
20:30
Refreshments and Social Activity
ISREV XIX – Programme – 11
Thursday 31st July
08:00-09:00
Breakfast
09:00-10:30
Plenary Presentation Chair: Julian Stern
Presenter: Denise Cush
Title: Combatting Sexism, Homophobia, Religionism and Subjectism:
equality and diversity in religious studies and religious education
Respondent: Thomas Schlag
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15
Collegial Paper Session 8
Room
Slot 8a Chair: Wolfram Weisse
Symposium title: Young people's views on religion, religious tolerance
and religious education: Methodological clarifications and outcomes of
the REDCo follow up study.
Presenter 1: Gerdien Bertram-Troost
Presenter 2: Olga Schihalejev
Presenter 3: Arniika Kuusisto & Arto Kallioiemi
Presenter 4: Geir Skeie
Respondent : Martin Ubani
Room
Slot 8b Chair: Kari Flornes
Presenter 1: Philip Barnes
Title: Religious Studies, Religious Education and the aims of
Education
Respondent 1: Heinz Streib
Presenter 2: Doug Blomberg
Title: Willing Acceptance of Others
Respondent 2: Phra Nicholas Thanissaro
Room
Slot 8c Chair: Shira Iluz
Presenter 1: Oddrun Bråten
Title: The Role of Textbooks in Norwegian RE
Respondent 1: Eugene McElhinney
Presenter 2: Bruce Grelle
Title: Cultivating a Sense of Self-as-Citizen: Making the Academic
Study of Religion Relevant to Students’ Lives
Respondent 2: Trevor Cooling
Room
Slot 8d Chair: Hans-Günter Heimbrock
Presenter 1: Brian Gates
Title: Confessions of a serial website developer
Respondent 1: Mark Hillis
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Presenter 2: John Fisher
Title: God, other Transcendents and spiritual well-being: A quantitative
enquiry using SHALOM.
Respondent 2: Jun Fukaya
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15
Collegial Paper Session 9
Room
Slot 9a Chair: Peter Neil
Presenter 1: Valentin Kozhuharov
Title: RE as Orthodox Christian Faith-Teaching in Eastern Europe:
case studies from six countries
Respondent 1: Stephen McKinney
Presenter 2: Fyodor Kozyrev
Title: One more version of the 6-stages model of moral and religious
development
Respondent 2: Martin Rothgangel
Room
Slot 9b Chair: Ursula McKenna
Presenter 1: Karin Sporre
Title: What is the role of gender in research on RE and values
formation?
Respondent 1: Elisabeth Naurath
Presenter 2: Robert Jackson
Title: Reconfiguring ‘Education about Religions and Beliefs’ – Some
Issues
Respondent 2: Joyce Miller
Room
Slot 9c Chair: Cok Bakker
Presenter 1: Robert Bowie
Title: What can education learn from recent thinking around the
concept of dignity in the intersection between identity and protected
groups?
Respondent 1: Joachim Willems
Presenter 2: Tove Nicholaisen
Title: RE teaching and identity claims
Respondent 2: Judith Everington
Room
Slot 9d Chair: Yaacov Yablon
Symposium, title: The Semantics of “Spirituality” – Results from Crosscultural Research in Germany and the United States
Presenter 1: Heinz Streib
Presenter 2: Stefan Altmeyer
Presenter 3: Constantin Klein/Heinz Streib
Respondent : Yaacov Katz
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Room
Slot 9e Chair: Reinhold Mokrosch
Presenter 1: Alma Lanser
Title: Doing and Undergoing, Learning to Believe as Algorithm and as
Heuristic
Respondent 1: Leslie Francis
Presenter 2: Eugene McElhinney
Title: A neo-experiential approach to moral education through
exploring human desires
Respondent 2: Yisrael Rich
15:15-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:45
Collegial Paper Session 10
Room
Slot 10a Chair: Gemma Penny
Presenter 1: David Lifmark
Title: Challenges when defining and counteracting xenophobia in
schools
Respondent 1: Arniika Kuusisto
Presenter 2: Heid Leganger-Krogstad
Title: From dialogue to trialogue. A sociocultural learning perspective
on classroom interaction
Respondent 2: Geert Franzenburg
Room
Slot 10b Chair: Elisabeth Green
Presenter 1: Lāsma Latsone
Title: Value of Lessons Taught by Example: When Ethnicity, Class and
Gender do not Matter
Respondent 1: Dzintra Ilisko
Presenter 2
Title
Respondent 2:
Room
Slot 10c Chair: Bas Van den Berg
Presenter 1: Dörthe Vieregge
Title: Religiosity in the lives of socially and economically
disdavantaged young people
Respondent 1: Camilla Stabel Jørgensen
Presenter 2: Manfred Pirner
Title: Inclusive Education – a Christian perspective to an ‘overlapping
consensus’
Respondent 2: Hanan Alexander
ISREV XIX – Programme – 14
Room
Slot 10d Chair: Lynn Revell
Presenter 1: Şeyma Zarife Arslan
Title: A Turkish Response to the Quest for Reconciliation Religion and
Modernization: The Religious Vocational High Schools in Turkey
Respondent 1: Michael Buchanan
Presenter 2: Jeff Astley
Title: ‘I warn you not to be ordinary’: Some reflections on the common
wealth of religion and of education, and the dangers they face from the
denials and divisions of status
Respondent 2: Valentin Kozhuharov
Room
Slot 10e Chair: Tania ap Sion
Presenter 1: Leona English
Title: Religious Education in Conversation with Adult Education: A
Mutual Exchange of Ideas and Practices re Spirituality
Respondent 1: Jonathan Doney
Presenter 2: Norman Richardson
Title: Religious Diversity in the Formation of Teachers of Religious
Education
Respondent 2: Gunnar Gunnarsson
19:00
Gala Dinner
20:30
Jazz Band
ISREV XIX – Programme – 15
Friday 1st August
08:00-09:00
Breakfast
09:00-10:30
Plenary Presentation Chair: Dzintra Ilisko
Presenter: Mario D’Souza
Title: Equality, Difference, and Our Historical Condition: The Error of
Conceptualism and the Liberation of Education.
Respondent: Wilna Meijer
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15
ISREV Annual General Meeting
12:15-13:00
Lunch
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