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( Priority: Big Questions in Classrooms )

Project: The Epistemic Insight Initiative Embedding epistemic insight (EI) in teacher training programmes in English universities: barriers and how to overcome them Entrenched compartmentalisation of curriculum subjects and ‘teaching to the test’ can leave students with limited understanding of the nature ...
Project: The Epistemic Insight Initiative Can a robot be a scientist? Developing students’ epistemic insight through a lesson exploring the role of human creativity in astronomy Abstract Artificial intelligence is transforming the practice of science worldwide. Breakthroughs in machine learning are enabling, for exampl...
Project: The Epistemic Insight Initiative Preparing students to engage with science‐ and technology‐related misinformation: The role of epistemic insight Abstract Helping students to become more resilient to online misinformation is widely recognised as an essential task for education in a rapid...
Project: The Beginning Teacher in the Science/Religion Encounter: Building Confidence for an Integrated Vision of Knowledge Science and RE teachers' perspectives on the purpose of RE on the secondary school curriculum in England Abstract Renewed interest in curriculum in English schooling over the past decade has emanated from a particular focus on the place and role o...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education Argumentation is widely recognised as a core practice of science, but the relation between argumentation in the teaching of science in contras...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools The Impact of Collaboration Between Science and Religious Education Teachers on Their Understanding and Views of Argumentation Abstract Teachers’ understanding and teaching of argumentation is gaining more attention in science education research. However, little is kno...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Interdisciplinary perspective-taking within argumentation: students’ strategies across science and religious education Abstract The importance of developing students’ argumentation skills is well established across the curriculum: students should grasp how clai...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants Background Argumentation, the justification of claims with reasons and/or evidence, has emerged as a significant goal in science education in ...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Recalibrating the evolution versus creationism debate for student learning: towards students’ evaluation of evidence in an argumentation task There is substantial body of literature in science education focusing on students’ understanding of the theory of evolution by natural selecti...
Project: The Beginning Teacher in the Science/Religion Encounter: Building Confidence for an Integrated Vision of Knowledge Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy Background during school lessons participants can face challenging pedagogical problems such as when science and religion topics interact. Pot...
Project: What Distinctive Contribution Does Religious Education Make to the Development of Epistemic Literacy in Relation to Big Questions in Religion and Science? Some pupils should know better (because there is better knowledge than opinion). Interim findings from an empirical study of pupils’ and teachers’ understandings of knowledge and big questions in Religious Education Abstract In this paper, we draw on interim findings of our research project on Religious Education (RE), knowledge and big questions. We have ...
Project: The Epistemic Insight Initiative Covid-19 as an opportunity to teach epistemic insight: findings from exploratory workshops on Covid-19 and science with students aged 15–17 in England The contributions of science and scientists to combatting Covid-19 have been at the forefront of media attention throughout 2020 and early 202...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Students’ argumentation in the contexts of science, religious education, and interdisciplinary science-religious education scenarios Background: Argumentation, that is the coordination of evidence and reasons to support claims, is an important skill for democratic society, d...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Science and Religious Education Teachers’ Views of Argumentation and Its Teaching Abstract Argumentation, the justification of claims with reasons and/or evidence, has emerged as a significant educational goal in science edu...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools An investigation into secondary teachers’ views of argumentation in science and religious education Citizens often face dilemmas where they need to make decisions that impact our lives and are related to science and religion. For example, gen...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Argumentation in religious education in England: an analysis of locally agreed syllabuses The importance of developing students’ ability to argue effectively is generally recognised across the curriculum, however what this means wit...
Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools Argumentation and interdisciplinarity: reflections from the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science Project Abstract Argumentation has emerged as a key area of research and development in science education in recent years. Simply defined, argumentati...
Project: Dialogue in Science and Religious Education: Evolution Instruction in a Diverse Democratic Society using Pedagogy of Difference Evolution and origins: Israeli Bible education experts on teaching the intersection of science and religion This article reports on research conducted with 28 experts in Bible education in Israel, where Hebrew Bible is a required subject in the curriculum...Through information gained in in-depth interviews with 19 of these experts, and a Delphi survey administered to 17 of these experts, we report on whether experts were in favour of teaching about the interface of evolution and Genesis in Bible class...