COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSORS ENGLISH, D'SOUZA, AND DR. CHARTRAND

Abstract

The aim of this article is to respond to Professor English, Professor D'Souza, and Dr. Chartrand's comparative review of research in the British Journal of Religious Education and Religious Education over the ten-year period from 1992–2002. Their analysis is for the most part extended and complemented, although critical questions are also raised and pursued. The article concludes with the identification of research trajectories in religious education and some personal comments on the direction future research should take.

Notes

All page references incorporated into the text are from English et al. in this issue.

Most persuasively in the monograph by a former editor of Religious Education, Hannan Alexander (2001).