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ISREV PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS – 2006

PLENARY SESSIONS

Monday 31 July   09.00 - Plenary session

Presenter: Mualla Selcuk
Title: Developing an Interfaith Dimension in Religious Education: Theological Foundations and Educational Framework with Special Reference to Turkish Experience
Respondent: Leo van der Tuin
Chair: Roseanne McDougal

Tuesday 1 August   09.00 - Plenary session

Presenter: Gabriel Moran
Title: Reforming Tradition: A Liberally Conservative Approach
Respondent: Leslie Francis
Chair: Carsten Gennerich

Wednesday 2 August   09.00 - Plenary session

Presenter: Siebren Miedema
Title: Religious Education between Certainty and Uncertainty
Respondent: Evelina Orteza y Miranda
Chair: Gloria Durka

Thursday 3 August   09.00 - Plenary session

Presenter: Robert Jackson
Title: European Institutions and the Contribution of Studies of Religious Diversity to Education for Democratic Citizenship
Respondent: Hans-Gunter Heimbrock
Chair: Inge Versteegt

Friday 4 August   09.00 - Plenary session

Presenter: Wilna Meijer
Title: Religious Education and the Balance Between Tradition and Enlightenment: The example of Islam
Respondent: Eunice Kamaara
Chair: Trevor Cooling
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COLLEGIAL SESSIONS

Monday 31 July   11.00 - Collegial sessions 1

A  Presenter: Yaacov Katz
    Title: Jewish education in the Israeli state secular education system
    Respondent: Trevor Cooling
    Chair: Cok Bakker

B  Presenter: Friedrich Schweitzer
    Symposium on Comparative Research in Religious Education
    Title: Comparative research in religious education: reasons, possibilities, methodologies, obstacles
    Respondent: Terence Copley
    Chair: Peter Schreiner

C  Presenter: Alma Lanser
    Title: Rap, reggae and roots, young people in the immigrant churches in the Netherlands
    Respondent: Rachel Jackson-Royal
    Chair: Annabelle Pithan

D  Presenter:  Mandy Robbins
    Title: God images and empathy among young people in South Africa
    Respondent: Elisabet Haakedal
    Chair: Alan Loosemore

E  Presenter:  David Lankshear
    Title: Psychological types of female primary school teachers in Anglican state-maintained schools in England and Wales
    Respondent: Geoff Teece
    Chair: Eunice Kamaara

F  Presenter: Geir Skeie
    Title: Religion in education and intercultural communication
    Respondent: Howard Summers
    Chair: Zehavit Gross

G  Presenter: Marian de Souza
    Title: Religious education leadership in a time of religious diversity: the role of spiritual intelligence
    Respondent: Gary Finlay
    Chair: Bruno Vanobbergen

H  Presenter: Astrid Dinter
    Title: RE in an age of genetic engineering
    Respondent: Deba Mitra Bhikkhu
    Chair: Fedor Kozyrev
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Monday 31 July   13.45 - Collegial sessions 2

A  Presenter: Petro Du Preez
    Title: Dialoguing human rights values as a means to understand religious diversity: a conceptual clarification
    Respondent: Thomas Schlad
    Chair: Renee Ferguson

B  Presenter: Terence Copley
    Symposium on Comparative Research in Religious Education
    Title: Secular indoctrination versus religious education: the western dilemma?
    Respondent: Peter Schreiner
    Chair: Friedrich Schweitzer

C  Presenter: Zehavit Gross
    Title: Civic identity as a challenge to the national religious education in Israel
    Respondent: Eugene McElhinney
    Chair: Marike Faber

D  Presenter: Rune Larsson
    Title: Christian learning and teaching in diversity
    Respondent: Mary Hayward
    Chair: Heon-Wook Park

E  Presenter: Leona English
    Title: Silence, exile and cunning: postcolonial conversations of religious diversity
    Respondent: Reinhold Boschki
    Chair: Uzeyir Ok

F  Presenter:  Steve McKinney and James Conroy
    Title: Are Catholic schools in Scotland divisive?
    Respondent: Richard Rymarz
    Chair: Recep Kaymakcan

G  Presenter: Johannes Laehnemann
    Title: Inter-religious textbook research and development; importance, experience, tasks:  a series of propositions
    Respondent: Valentin Kozhuharov
    Chair: Hans-Gunter Heimbrock

H Presenter: Fred Mwesigwa
    Title: A single faith syllabus with a multi-faith element: the way forward for a religiously sensitive Ugandan nation
    Respondent: Fred Smith
    Chair: Karen Walshe
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Monday 31 July   15.00 - Collegial sessions 3

A  Presenter: Renee Ferguson
    Title: Student perceptions of human rights and their understanding of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue
    Respondent: Zehavit Gross
    Chair: Cornelia Roux

B  Presenter: Peter Schreiner
    Symposium on Comparative Research in Religious Education
    Title: The contribution of religious education to democratic citizenship: theoretical and conceptual approaches to a European perspective
    Respondent: Heid Leganger-Krogstad
    Chair: Friedrich Schweitzer

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D  Presenter: Mette Buchardt
    Title: Identity politics in the classroom: construction of school-subject and identity in RE
    Respondent: Leona English
    Chair: Manfred Kwiran

E  Presenter: Jack Priestley
    Title: From 'us' to 'them': the gains and losses of curriculum change in religious education 1945-2005
    Respondent: Karlo Meyer
    Chair: Rachel Jackson-Royal

F  Presenter: Christina Osbeck
    Title: Harassment is ongoing and understanding of life takes its forms
    Respondent: Patricia Malone
    Chair: Howard Summers

G  Presenter: Paul McQuillan
    Title: From original vision to world vision: the challenge for religious educators in western societies
    Respondent: Theodor Brelsford
    Chair: Geoff Teece

H  Presenter: Charles Melchert
    Title: How can religious education be moral?
    Respondent: Yaacov Katz
    Chair: Emma Shackle
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Monday 31 July   16.15 - Collegial sessions 4

A  Presenter: Cornelia Roux
    Title: Reflective journaling in understanding religious diversity and human rights values
    Respondent: Hideok Omori
    Chair: Petro du Preez

B  Presenter: Heid Leganger-Krogstad
    Symposium on Comparative Research in Religious Education
    Title: Competences and basic skills in the syllabus for RE
    Respondent: Friedrich Schweitzer
    Chair: Peter Schreiner

C  Presenter: Yaacov Yablon
    Title: Privatization of religious public education in Israel: parents' preferences and educational goals
    Respondent: Roseanne McDougall
    Chair: Elina Hella

D  Presenter: Reinhold Mokrosch
    Title: The ethic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: suitable for coping with today's ethical challenges? Considerations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Bonhoeffer's death and the 100th anniversary of his birthday.
    Respondent: Jerome Berryman
    Chair: Gunnar Gunnarsson

E  Presenter: Akiko Shibanuma
    Title: Religious education in public schools in Japan
    Respondent: Heon-Wook Park
    Chair: Raphael Aaronson

F  Presenter: Heinz Streib
    Title: Interpersonal negotiation styles and dealing with religious diversity: conceptual clarification and new empirical evidence
    Respondent: Cok Bakker
    Chair: Peta Gouldberg

G  Presenter: Wolfram Weisse
    Title: Religion in education: a contribution to dialogue or a factor of conflict in transforming societies of European countries
    Respondent: Yashimasa Yoshioka
    Chair: Yaacov Katz

H  Presenter: Judith Everington
    Title: Learning to teach about and from religion: the challenge for trainee RE teachers and their trainers
    Respondent: Catherine Bowness
    Chair: Patricia Malone
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Tuesday 1 August   11.00 - Collegial sessions 5

A  Presenter: Andrew Wright
    Title: Liberal religious education and the pursuit of ultimate truth
    Respondent: John Hull
    Chair: Leslie Francis

B  Symposium on Comparative Research in Religious Education
    Chair: Friedrich Schweitzer
    Panel: Terence Copley, Heid Leganger-Krogstad and Peter Schreiner

C  Presenter: Trevor Cooling
    Title: The challenge of passionate religious commitment for education in a world of religious diversity
    Respondent: Recep Kaymakcan
    Chair: Richard Rymarz

D  Presenter: Arto Kallioniemi
    Title: 'New curricula for minority groups,' religious education in Finland: an example of RE in our world of religious diversity
    Respondent: Pille Valk
    Chair: Jerome Berryman
 
E  Presenter: Manfred Pirner
    Title: Popular media religion: common ground for religious education in a world of religious diversity?
    Respondent: Raphael Aaronson
    Chair: Gary Finlay

F  Presenter: Bernd Schröder
    Title: Comparative religious education as a methodological response to the challenge of religious diversity
    Respondent: Peta Goldburg
    Chair: Karlo Meyer

G  Presenter: Gloria Durka
    Title: Cultivating the religious imagination: the educational challenge for a post-modern world
    Respondent: Karen Walshe
    Chair: Catherine Bowness

H  Presenter: Emma Shackle
    Title: Promoting healthy religion among adults: the place of the novel in religious education
    Respondent: Mualla Selcuk
    Chair: Bruce Grelle
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Tuesday 1 August   13.45 - Collegial sessions 6

A  Presenter: Elizabeth Arweck
    Title: One programme, diverse applications: a values programme in the school context
    Respondent: Elina Hella
    Chair: Philip Barnes

B  Presenter: Leslie Francis
    Title: God images and moral values among Protestant and Catholic adolescents in Ireland
    Respondent: Carsten Gennerich
    Chair: Mary Hayward

C  Presenter: Trond Enger
    Title: Earthquakes, experience of God and RE: Hjalmar Sunden revisited
    Respondent: Manfred Kwiran
    Chair: Siebren Miedema

D  Presenter: Evelina Orteza y Miranda
    Title: Religious diversity and religious education
    Respondent: Uzeyir Ok
    Chair: Deba Mitra Bhikkhu

E  Presenter: Dzintra Ilisko
    Title: Pedagogical challenges of educating for authentic religious identity and responsible pluralism
    Respondent: Gunnar Gunnarsson
    Chair: Fred Smith

F   Presenter: Thomas Schlag
    Title: Communication about 'religious identity and ethics'? Challenges of the new school subject 'religion and culture' in Zurich, Switzerland
    Respondent: Manfred Pirner
    Chair: Reinhold Boschki

G  Presenter: Erling Birkedal
    Title: Church pedagogical environment and diversity among parents
    Respondent: Kath Engebretson
    Chair: Yashimasa Yoshioka
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Tuesday 1 August   15.00 - Collegial sessions 7

A  Presenter: Hans-Georg Babke
    Title: The problem of how to be fair to religious minorities in school
    Respondent: Vivian Baumfield
    Chair: Robert Jackson

B  Presenter: Geir Afdal
    Title: Practice as theoretical resource
    Respondent: Gloria Durka
    Chair: Manfred Pirner

C  Presenter: Kath Engebretson
    Title: God's got your back: teenage boys talk about God
    Respondent: Gabriel Moran
    Chair: Mualla Selcuk

D  Presenter: Bruce Grelle
    Title: Learning to live with our deepest differences: teaching about religions in the US public schools
    Respondent: Bruno Vanobbergen
    Chair: Geir Skeie

E  Presenter: Leo van der Tuin
    Title: Attitudes to religious education in relation to religious plurality: a survey in the Netherlands
    Respondent: Gunter Schmidt
    Chair: Valentin Kozhuharov

F  Presenter: Eunice Kamaara
    Title: The role of religious education in a world of religious diversity: lessons from Kenya
    Respondent: Akiko Shibanuma
    Chair: Friedrich Schweitzer

G  Presenter: Hideko Omori
    Title: Liberal religious education in Japan: from Jinzo Naruse's perspective
    Respondent: Ulrich Schwab
    Chair: Elizabeth Arweck
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Tuesday 1 August   16.15 - Collegial sessions 8

A  Presenter: Philip Barnes
    Title: The misrepresentation of religion in modern British religious education
    Respondent: Geir Afdal
    Chair: Hans-Georg Babke

B  Presenter: Roseanne McDougall
    Title: 'Like treasure buried in a field.' A review of selected literature on religious imagination
    Respondent: Alan Loosemore
    Chair: Kath Engebretson

C  Presenter: Vivienne Baumfield
    Title: Becoming a teacher of RE in a world of religious diversity
    Respondent: Marike Faber
    Chair: Ina ter Avest

D  Presenter: Peta Goldburg
    Title: Critical religious literacy: a logical step for religious education in a world of religious diversity
    Respondent: Annabelle Pithan
    Chair: Reinhold Boschki

E  Presenter: Inge Versteegt
    Title: Ethnicity, national identity and teaching about religion in European context
    Respondent: Fedor Kozyrev
    Chair: Vivian Baumfield

F  Presenter: Mark Hillis
    Title: Clash and confluence: rules of narrative and worlds of meaning in religious education
    Respondent: Bernd Schröder
    Chair: Thomas Schlag
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Thursday 3 August   11.00 - Collegial sessions 9

A  Presenter: John Hull
    Title: Diverse bodies: religious education and disability
    Respondent: David Lankshear
    Chair: Elisabet Haakedal

B  Presenter: Deba Mitra Bhikkhu
    Title: Religious education: a Buddhist perspective
    Respondent: Astrid Dinter
    Chair: Reinhold Mokrosch

C  Presenter: Mary Hayward
    Title: 'Not a dead religion.'  Teachers' aspirations in teaching Christianity to students in the 11-14 age range
    Respondent: Geir Skeie
    Chair: Ulrich Schwab

D  Presenter: Pille Valk
    Title: Does RE make a difference?
    Respondent: Arto Kallioniemi
    Chair: Steve McKinney

E  Presenter: Fedor Kozyrev
    Title: A step toward a new level of interchurch and interdisciplinary partnership between RE educators in eastern and central Europe
    Respondent: Alma Lanser
    Chair: Judith Everington

F  Presenter: Patricia Malone
    Title: An educational approach to religious formation in a time of changing paradigms
    Respondent: Eugene McElhinney
    Chair: Christina Osbeck

G  Presenter: Valentin Kozhuharov
    Title: Religious education as mission
    Respondent: Rune Larsson
    Chair: Jack Priestley

H  Presenter: Heon-Wook Park
    Title: The role and the meaning of religious education today in Japanese religious diversity
    Respondent: Mette Buchardt
    Chair: Sherry Blumberg
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Thursday 3 August   13.45 - Collegial sessions 10

A  Presenter: Cok Bakker
    Title: School ethos in 490 short stories
    Respondent: Paul McQuillan
    Chair: Marian de Souza

B  Presenter: Marike Faber
    Title: A world of religious diversity within a Christian school
    Respondent: Charles Melchert
    Chair: Astrid Dinter

C  Presenter: Elina Hella
    Title: Relational approach to religious education: research perspectives of phenomenography and variation theory of learning
    Respondent: Folkert de Jong
    Chair: Rune Larsson

D  Presenter: Karlo Meyer
    Title: Tolerance to the other religions? The Bible and RE: biblical foundations for teaching world religions in a world of religious diversity
    Respondent: Elizabeth Arweck
    Chair: Geir Afdal

E  Presenter: Bruno Vanobbergen
    Title: Beyond the myth of the child: from the Garden of Eden to the promised land
    Respondent: Wolfram Weisse
    Chair: Johannes Laehnemann

F  Presenter: Gunter R Schmidt
    Title: Educating for peace and the problem of violence in the Bible and in the Qur'an
    Respondent: Mark Hillis
    Chair: Philip Barnes

G  Presenter: Gunnar Gunnarsson
    Title: Life Interpretation among Icelandic Teenagers
    Respondent: Sherry Blumberg
    Chair: Theodore Brelsford
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Thursday 3 August   15.00 - Collegial sessions 11

A  Presenter: Recep Kaymakcan
    Title: Confessional or pluralistic religious learning in Turkey? An empirical research on Turkish adolescences attitudes to pluralism
    Respondent: Siebren Miedema
    Chair: Charles Melchert

B  Presenter: Fred Smith
    Title: To create the beloved community: a prophetic religious education
    Respondent: Reinhold Mokrosch
    Chair: James Conroy

C  Presenter: Howard Summers
    Title: Accommodating religious diversity: what really happens?
    Respondent: Andrew Wright
    Chair: Gunter Schmidt

D  Presenter: Uzeyir Ok
    Title: Faith development and perceptions of diversity among Muslims: implications for religious education
    Respondent: Heinz Streib
    Chair: Alma Lanser

E  Presenter: Reinhold Boschki
    Title: How children approach sacred places: religious learning in a situation of religious diversity
    Respondent: Judith Everington
    Chair: Leona English

F  Presenter: Karen Walshe
    Title: Jesus in UK RE: children's perspectives
    Respondent: Cornelia Roux
    Chair: Paul McQuillan

G  Presenter: Gary Finlay
    Title: Christian anthropology and religious education
    Respondent: Johannes Laehnemann
    Chair: Mark Hillis
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Thursday 3 August   16.15 - Collegial sessions 12

A  Presenter:  Geoff Teece
    Title: Religious education as 'skilful means': a contribution to discussions on the identity of the subject
    Respondent: Steve McKinney
    Chair: David Lankshear

B  Presenter: Richard Rymarz
    Title: What is this person Grace? A reflection on content knowledge in religious education
    Respondent: Hans-Georg Babke
    Chair: Heinz Streib

C  Presenter: Catherine Bowness
    Title: A changing world: teenage morality revisited
    Respondent: Marian de Souza
    Chair: Pille Valk

D  Presenter: Rachel Jackson-Royal
    Title: Thinking skills in religious education
    Respondent: Christina Osbeck
    Chair: Arto Kallioniemi

E  Presenter: Jerome Berryman
    Title: What are we teaching for? The goal of religious education
    Respondent: Fred Mwesigwa
    Chair: Bernd Schröder

F  Presenter: Yoshimasa Yoshioka
    Title: Can faith be taught?
    Respondent: Gunter Schmidt
    Chair: Akiko Shibanuma

G  Presenter: Carsten Gennerich
    Title: Co-operation of Roman Catholic and Protestant teachers in the classroom: differential experiences in a German study
    Respondent: Bruce Grelle
    Chair: Dzintra Ilisko

H  Presenter: Ina ter Avest
    Title: Living apart together, the other and me
    Respondent: Jack Priestley
    Chair: Folkert de Jong
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