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Linda Rudge
Research InterestsLinda is a Lecturer in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, and Director of the Keswick Hall Centre for Research and Development in Religious Education. Her main research interests are in the problems and possibilities raised by the implementation of government policy on RE in schools, LEAs, and initial teacher education contexts. She is also interested in spirituality, implicit religion, and in the religion amongst the majority of pupils and teachers in UK schools. She has recently directed a five year funded project on the implementation of agreed syllabuses for RE, (Making RE Work - Keswick Hall Trust and St Gabriel's Trust), a project on RE and Citizenship (the Farmington Institute, Oxford), and a project on RE and Changing Beliefs (Farmington Institute). She has published internationally on religion, education and values, and she is a full member of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (ISREV). She has also published on the history of RE and the 'standards agenda' related to the subject. Linda taught RE, Personal and Social Education and humanities subjects in secondary schools in the UK before working in an LEA as curriculum adviser for RE, and then moving on to work in higher education at UEA when the RE Centre was founded in 1993. She has extensive experience in the initial teacher education (primary and secondary phases), in continuing professional development and in-service training, and in teaching and supervising postgraduate research students. She has also been closely involved in national developments in RE, contributing as Chair of the Conference of University Lecturers in RE to consultation groups and working parties at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), the Teacher Training Agency (now Teacher Development Agency) and the Department for Education and Employment (now DfES).
Project Summary The Pandora project List of PublicationsArticles(2004) 'Standards and standardisation in Religious Education, 1993-2003: a very English experience' in volume 3 of German journal: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie(1999) 'To live is to change - a reflection on the first 's' (spiritual development) in the school curriculum'. Part one in 15:1 of the Journal of the Australian Association of Religious Education, Part 2 in 15:2 (1998) '"I am Nothing - Does it Matter"? A critique of current religious education policy and practice in England on behalf of the silent majority' British Journal of Religious Education 20:3, 155-165 (1996) 'The Future of RE in the School Curriculum: Trends in England and Wales, 1995-96' Resource, Journal of the Professional Council for RE, 18:3, 4-8 (1995) 'Religious Education in England - Choice, Diversity - and freedom? A survey of current provision and trends' Religion og Livssyn Journal (Norway) Nr 4: 7, 22-28 Book Chapters(2004) 'Religion, education, and the primary school context' in Professional Issues for Primary Teachers edited by Ann Browne and Derek Haylock, Paul Chapman Publishing (Sage)(2000, updated 2005) 'The Place of Religious Education in the Curriculum' in Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School edited by Andrew Wright and Anne-Marie Brandom, 9-27, London: RoutledgeFalmer Examples of Other Published Material(2005) with SMITH J. 'The child, the teacher and Pandora's box Teachers talking about childhood spiritualities, 2004-05' paper presented at international conference 'Childhoods 2005', Oslo, July 2005(2005) 'Implicit Religion and Religious Education in English schools: an unresolved affair?' paper presented at the XXVIII Denton Conference, Ilkley, May 6th-8th, 2005 (2005) 'Transformers and Amplifiers': the aims and outcomes of RE' keynote presentation at The Westhill Trust Seminar, Leeds, February 4th/5th 2005 on RE in relation to human rights, values and citizenships (2002) 'Modern societal changes and challenges - a response to Manfred Kwiran' in Panorama: International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values 14:1, 69-71 (2002) 'Citizens, Subjects or Souls: the Monarchy in the 21st Century - a means of Defending Faith?' in RE Today 19:2 42-43 (2001) 'Review, Design and Implementation' - summary report in Making RE Work: Syllabus Implementation Studies project (UEA, Norwich) (2001) 'Task setting in RE at Key Stage 3 - a response to Barbara Wintersgill' in Resource: Journal of the Professional Council for RE 23:2, 4-8 In Preparation(2005) 'Measuring the Immeasurable: a UK perspective on the outcomes of the religious, spiritual and moral dimensions of the curriculum' chapter 10 in section 2 of The International Handbook of the Religious, Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of the Curriculum edited by Gloria Durka, Andrew McGrady, Kathleen Engebretson, and Marian de Souza(2005) with SMITH J. 'Standards, students and scary bits: The promotion of spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in the context of primary teacher education', paper selected for presentation at BERA, September, 2005 (2005) with SMITH J. "They want us to fix things - but we can't..." examining and discussing practitioner research, research participation, and 'what it's for' through video', paper selected for presentation at PRAR/CARN conference, Netherlands, 2005 Additional InformationResearch into Identity, Values, Religion and Spirituality (RIVRS) group at UEA [weblink coming soon...]Keswick Hall Centre for Research and Identity in Religious Education For further information on the Keswick Hall Centre for Research and Identity in Religious Education please click here
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