OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Religious Education is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Decolonising the religious education curriculum	13
Non-binary worldviews in education	10
Simulation-based learning for Rabbi-teachers dealing with conflicts in education	8
On being a religiously tolerant Muslim: discursive contestations among pre-service teachers in contemporary Indonesia	7
Religion in a world-view neutral school. Challenges on the example of Poland	7
Using forum theatre to address homosexuality as a controversial issue in religious education	7
Professional learning for Islamic education teachers in the UAE	7
The (non)transgressive character of religious education for children and young people in Polish schools	6
Muslim diversity, religious formation and Islamic religious education. Everyday practical insights into Muslim parents’ concepts of religious education in Austria	6
Strictly teacher-researchers? The influence of a professional RE conference on primary RE teachers’ agency and self-identities as teacher-researchers	6
Opening up adult religious education and faith development in Ireland: the AREFD project	5
Knowledge exchange, intergroup relations and ‘sharing space’: a community of enquiry for the professional development of teachers of religion and worldviews	5
Teachers’ faith, identity processes and resilience: a qualitative approach	5
The meaning of religious education in English legislation from 1800 to 2020	4
European Court of Human Rights’ judgements and compulsory religious education in Turkey	4
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	4
Achieving pluralism? A critical analysis of the inclusion of non-religious worldviews in RE policy in England and Wales after R (Fox) v Secretary of State for Education	4
Towards the decolonisation of religion education in a pre-service education classroom	4
Religion lesson in schools in Poland – the subject of dispute and the unused potential	3
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	3
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	3
‘From the wells’: teaching openness in Judaism and Islam towards a shared society in Israel?	3
Country report: Religious education in Malaysia	3
A secular Advent. waiting for Christmas in Swedish preschools	3
A practitioner action research approach to learning outside the classroom in religious education: developing a dialogical model through reflection by teachers and faith field visitors	3

Religious orientation, religious involvement, and religious coping predict university students’ thinking styles	3
Teacher and student evaluations of a trial RE curriculum: implications for scale	2
Addressing controversial issues in religious education by enacting and rehearsing democracy through Forum Theatre: student perspectives	2
Bringing purpose and peace-of-mind to the role of a Catholic school middle leader	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
Spiritual education as a subspecies of relational education?	2
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	2
Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales	2
We’re still teaching, we’re still learning	2
Perceptions of pre-service and graduate early childhood and primary teachers regarding their confidence in teaching Religious Education in Catholic primary schools	2
Religious education at public schools of Kyrgyzstan	2
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	2
Impact of action research in Norwegian religious education	2
The role of religion in civic engagement of young people from diverse cultures in Hong Kong	2
The role of Catholic schools in promoting human dignity	2
Finnish teachers’ approaches to personal worldview expressions: A question of professional autonomy and ethics	2
Ametaapproach to texts in religious education: researching teachers’ engagement with sacred text scholarship in English secondary schools	2
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	2
Religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia’s middle school Islamic studies	2
Examining the role of Pakistan’s national curriculum textbook discourses on normalising the Taliban’s violence in the USA’s Post 9/11 war on terror in South Waziristan, Pakistan	2
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	2