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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldview in religious education: autobiographical reflections on The Commission on Religious Education in England final report	19
The meanings and possible implications of critical Islamic religious education	15
Decolonising religious education in sub-Saharan Africa through the prism of anticolonialism: a conceptual proposition	10
Decolonising the religious education curriculum	10
Disciplinary literacy in religious education: the role and relevance of reading	9
Non-binary worldviews in education	8
Simulation-based learning for Rabbi-teachers dealing with conflicts in education	7
Christian religious education and the development of moral virtues: a neo-Thomistic approach	7
Teachers’ personal worldviews and RE in England: a way forward?	7
Religion in a world-view neutral school. Challenges on the example of Poland	6
Using forum theatre to address homosexuality as a controversial issue in religious education	6
The (non)transgressive character of religious education for children and young people in Polish schools	6
Religious leaders as regime enablers: the need for decolonial family and religious studies in postcolonial Zimbabwe	5
Reading posthumanism and decolonisation diffractively towards (re)configuring an ontoepistemic approach to religion education	5
Strictly teacher-researchers? The influence of a professional RE conference on primary RE teachers’ agency and self-identities as teacher-researchers	5
On being a religiously tolerant Muslim: discursive contestations among pre-service teachers in contemporary Indonesia	5
The centre cannot hold: decolonising the RE curriculum in the Republic of Ireland	5
Knowledge exchange, intergroup relations and ‘sharing space’: a community of enquiry for the professional development of teachers of religion and worldviews	4
Professional learning for Islamic education teachers in the UAE	4
Towards the decolonisation of religion education in a pre-service education classroom	4
Muslim diversity, religious formation and Islamic religious education. Everyday practical insights into Muslim parents’ concepts of religious education in Austria	4
European Court of Human Rights’ judgements and compulsory religious education in Turkey	3
Religious education in Pakistan	3
Microaggressions and discriminatory behaviour towards religious education teachers in polish schools	3
A secular Advent. waiting for Christmas in Swedish preschools	3

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	3
‘From the wells’: teaching openness in Judaism and Islam towards a shared society in Israel?	3
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	3
Opening up adult religious education and faith development in Ireland: the AREFD project	3
Religion lesson in schools in Poland – the subject of dispute and the unused potential	3
Integrative RE in Flanders: a decade later	3
Religious education and the pandemic: postcolonial perspectives	3
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	3
Religious orientation, religious involvement, and religious coping predict university students’ thinking styles	3
Teachers’ faith, identity processes and resilience: a qualitative approach	3
We’re still teaching, we’re still learning	2
Addressing controversial issues in religious education by enacting and rehearsing democracy through Forum Theatre: student perspectives	2
The meaning of religious education in English legislation from 1800 to 2020	2
Subaltern Thinking in Religious Education? Postcolonial Readings of (German) Schoolbooks	2
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	2
Hong Kong – Pluralistic but separate religious education in a multi-religious city	2
The role of Catholic schools in promoting human dignity	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 before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	2
The ‘Family Project’: investigating multi-belief peer learning in two Irish primary schools	2
The role of religion in civic engagement of young people from diverse cultures in Hong Kong	2
Teacher and student evaluations of a trial RE curriculum: implications for scale	2
Finnish teachers’ approaches to personal worldview expressions: A question of professional autonomy and ethics	2
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	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	2
Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales	2