‘RE teachers do get drunk you know’: becoming a religious education teacher in the twenty-first century

Abstract

In terms of the attention that they have attracted from researchers, and in comparison with teachers of other subjects, religious education specialists would seem to be a neglected and marginalized group. This paper looks at some of the reasons why this might be and also describes a study that is using a life history approach to explore what it is like to be a religious education teacher at the turn of the millennium.

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Corresponding author: The University of Sheffield, School of Education, The Education Building, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JA, UK. Email: [email protected]