I was in London yesterday, to see A Strange Loop, and watching that powerful reflection on the impact of religious-based homophobia (especially on the same day as London’s Pride festival!) reinforced the importance to me of ensuring Religious Education in UK schools doesn’t reproduce religious bigotry, and that it actively challenges harmful religious narratives of exclusion that can make our LGBTQ+ students feel victimised and attacked in the supposedly safe-space of the classroom rather than amplify them. I speak about some of the ways I’ve tried to challenge religious homo/trans/bi phobia in my own RE teaching in my book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher ( https://www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page/anarchist-atheist-punk-rock-teacher-by-dan-mckee ) and recommend it as reading for any current RE/RS teacher.

#RETeacher #RE #ReligiousEducation #Pride2023 #LondonPride #AStrangeLoop #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #LGBTQ #Pride #Teaching #Education #InclusiveTeaching #Book

In a landmark judgment, the High Court has held that the words ‘other religions’ in education law are to be interpreted as including humanism.

Read my new blog post on the significance of R (on the application of Bowen) v Kent County Council: https://lawandreligionuk.com/2023/05/30/humanism-and-religious-instruction-in-schools-the-landmark-case-of-bowen/

#law #education #schools #religiousstudies #religiouseducation #religiousfreedom #lawandreligion #humanism #humanist #belief

Contributed a chapter to this book on the construction of gender in religious education spaces: Let the Children Lead: Exploring Children’s Spirituality Today bookshop.org/p/books/let-th… #kidmin #religiouseducation #gender #church

Great to see a review of my book ‘Religion in Schools: Learning Lessons from Wales’ in the new issue of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ecclesiastical-law-journal/article/abs/religion-in-schools-learning-lessons-from-wales-russell-sandberg-anthem-press-london-2022-134-pp-paperback-1999-ibsn-9781839984259/2156A4AE649E600C1BF4D5A0AF7C6EDA

The review praises it as ‘the leading text on the law of religion in Welsh Schools’, ‘succinct and informative’ and ‘of interest to public lawyers more broadly’.

The book can be ordered from: https://anthempress.com/religion-in-schools-learning-lessons-from-wales-pb

#religiousfreedom #religion #religioninschools #wales #education #religiouseducation

Last week in the House of Lords, the Government gave two reasons why England should not follow Wales in explicitly requiring non-religious beliefs to be taught in school. My blog post discusses how these reasons are utterly unconvincing: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/second-reading-of-education-non-religious-philosophical-convictions-bill-and-why-the-government-is-wrong/ #religion #religiouseducation #schools #england

Last week in @UKHouseofLords, the Government gave two reasons why England should not follow Wales in explicitly requiring non-religious beliefs to be taught in school. My blog post discusses how these reasons are utterly unconvincing: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/second-reading-of-education-non-religious-philosophical-convictions-bill-and-why-the-government-is-wrong/ #religion #religiouseducation #schools #england

My new blog post on why the Government’s reasons for failing to support reform of the law on Religious Education in England are unsatisfactory: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/second-reading-of-education-non-religious-philosophical-convictions-bill-and-why-the-government-is-wrong/

#law #education #religiouseducation #schools #religiousstudies

The Education (Non-religious Philosophical Convictions) Bill receives its Second Reading in UK House of Lords
today. The Private Members Bill would bring England in line with Wales in terms of including non religious beliefs in the curriculum and on curriculum composition groups.

#education #religion #law #religiousstudies #religiouseducation #england

With the publication of further data about religion from #Census2021, check out my new blog post that argues that this underlines the need for reform of marriage and education laws: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/census-results-on-religion-by-age-further-questions-christian-centric-laws/

#law #marriage #marriages #wedding #weddings #reform #education #schools #religiouseducation #religiousstudies #religion #religions #census

RT @FaithsOxford@twitter.com

🎺🎺🎺We are honoured to 📢announce: the #OxfordInterfaithForum together with the Academy for Judaic, Christian & Islamic Studies inaugurated the Annual "Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Peacebuilding Education Lecture"!🎺🎺🎺

#ReligiousEducation @religions4peace@twitter.com @HLaehnemann@twitter.com https://twitter.com/religions4peace/status/1620173791749083139

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FaithsOxford/status/1620177504538624000

My new blog post on how the publication of the #census data on religion by age underscores the need to reform our Christian-centric laws on marriage and religion in schools: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/census-results-on-religion-by-age-further-questions-christian-centric-laws/

#schools #law #marriage #religion #christianity #religiouseducation #marriagelaw

I don’t know why, but I never did an #Introduction post. So here it goes…

#Software #developer who works at #Microsoft/#MicrosoftEDU. Makes products work better for #teachers and #students in #k12 #education. I work on #ImmersiveReader and #ReadingProgress. Both help with #accessibility and #LanguageLearning.

I'm #gay, #liberal and live in #seattle. I love #tech, #cooking and #recipes. #Athiest involved in #ReligiousEducation and a member of a #UU church. #ENTJ. #Cat person.

#Me

Windows into Buddhism
Educational Resources for Teaching Buddhism
https://windowsintobuddhism.com

Access to resources by age group and topic.

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#ReligiousEducation #ReligiousStudies #curriculum

The publication of the 2021 Census data on religion underscores further how our archaic Christian-centric laws on marriage and religion in schools are no longer adequate in 2022.

Read my blog post at: https://sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/the-2021-census-data-a-wake-up-call-for-policy-makers-and-academics/

#census #census2021 #religion #marriage #schools #worship #religiouseducation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63653576

Worth keeping an eye on this challenge to the mandatory Relationships and Sexuality Education which forms part of the new Curriculum for Wales not least because the opt out has also been removed for what is now Religion, Values and Ethics - on which see my latest book: https://anthempress.com/religion-in-schools-learning-lessons-from-wales-pb

#wales #sexeducation #ReligiousEducation #curriculum #schools #CurriculumForWales #senedd

Hey Tootles - just joined and looking to connect with #ReligiousEducation #Teachers #Academics or #discipline interested parties! No proselytising please!

The legal framework on the teaching of religion in schools in Wales has been transformed with a greater focus on non-religious beliefs. Yet, the law requiring a daily act of religious worship belongs in a different century. My latest book argues that reform is needed in both England and in Wales: https://anthempress.com/religion-in-schools-learning-lessons-from-wales-pb

#law #lawprof #religion #schools #ReligiousEducation #worship #reform #wales #england #Beliefs #religionorbelief #lawandreligion #senedd #welshgovernment

My #introduction:
I am a cishet man who lives in #Oslo, 🇳🇴, and I will mostly toot in #Norwegian.
I support everything that is green 💚! I prefer to travel by #bike and by #train, and I love my e-bike with seats for two of my three children.
I love to sing choral music and hymns, but unfortunately I am not in a #choir at the time being.
Having studied #theology and education, I work as an advisor in #ReligiousEducation for preschools, for the Lutheran Church of Norway, and for a publisher house.