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Robert Jackson, “Materials Used to Teach About World Religions in Schools in England: A Summary.” Religion & Education 37 (2010): 179–182.

This is a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project (2009–2012) ‘Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity’, part of the AHRC/ESRC ‘Religion and Society’ programme.

The most recent book from the REDCo Project is R. Jackson, ed., Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict: Perspectives on Religious Education Research (London: Routledge, 2010).

. Religion & Education 37, (2010).

Office for Democratic and Human Rights, Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools (Warsaw: Office for Democratic and Human Rights, 2007).

“The European Wergeland Centre,” accessed May 6, 2012, http://www.theewc.org/.

Diane Moore, Overcoming Religious Illiteracy. A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

See, for example, Kevin O'Grady's account of his early action research in this issue, where his younger teenage pupils overcome some of their prejudices against Muslims by reflecting on their own family life patterns and noticing similarities rather than differences.

Bruce Grelle, “Defining and Promoting the Study of Religion in British and American Schools,” Religion & Education 32, (2005): 23–41.

Grelle, “Defining and Promoting the Study of Religion in British and American Schools,” 38.

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Kevin O'Grady

Kevin O'Grady has 25 years of experience of teaching and leading religious education in English secondary schools. He has studied at the universities of Lancaster and Warwick, gaining his doctorate in 2007. Kevin was research co-ordinator of the Warwick REDCo community of practice, 2006–2009, part of the English contribution to the European Commission-funded REDCo project. He is a member of the ongoing REDCo network and of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He is widely published on religious education pedagogy and action research, his main interests. Kevin is Faculty Leader for Religious Education, Personal, Health and Social Education, Citizenship and Careers at Aston Academy and an Associate Fellow in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit. E-mail: [email protected]

Joyce Miller

Joyce Miller is an Associate Fellow at the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick. She is the former Head of Diversity and Cohesion at Education Bradford with responsibility for religious education, community cohesion, and race equality. Her doctoral research was on community cohesion and RE and formed part of the European-wide REDCo project. Her current research is on religious extremism and religious education, following her work on the RE silience project which aimed to increase teachers' confidence and competence in dealing with contentious issues in the classroom. E-mail: [email protected]

Ursula Mckenna

Ursula McKenna is a part time Research Fellow in Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick, England. She is also a part time primary school teacher. From 2006–2009 she worked on the European Commission Framework 6 (REDCo) project “Religion in Education. A Contribution to Dialogue or a factor of Conflict in transforming societies of European countries.” From 2009–2012 she worked on the AHRC/ESRC Religion in Society Programme project “Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity.” E-mail: [email protected]