Postgraduate Researcher
Current Status
First year, part time
Research Topic
Why are Sunni paradigms normative in Religious Education?
Research Summary
My research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring how and why the paradigms associated with Sunni Islam are normative in Religious Education. I am particularly interested in why RE represents Shi'a Islam according to Sunni polemic rather than according to how Shi'a Islam understands itself.
This necessarily includes a critical analysis of, but not limited to: the concept of 'religion' used within RE, the impact of 'multi-culturalism' on RE, RE pedagogies as ideologies of recuperation, the relationship between RE and anti-Shi'a discourse, RE and global political agendas and the formation and consequences of RE epistemologies
Research Interests
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Critical Theory and RE
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The impact of sectarianism on RE students
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The representations of diversity within Islam
Research Supervison
Dr Geoff Teece and Dr Tonie Stolberg
Funding
Self funded