RE and spirituality in school?

[PiEstudent]

Hi everyone.
really sorry if this isnt meant to go here.
Parents, what are your thoughts on RE?
Whether you like it, hate it or don't care for it i'd love to hear it!
I'm carrying out a dissertation survey looking at student, parent and teacher attitudes to RE and the use of traditionally religious/spiritual coping techniques in schools to help children during exams etc

I'd love to hear your thoughts on any and all of these issues. If you fit in multiple participant groups please feel free to answer them all... bit i REALLY need to hear the thoughts of parents particularly!
Thank you so much, and once again sorry if this doesn't belong here- just seemed logical. xxx

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Hi. I'm a bit confused. I thought you would be separating out religious from spiritual but it looks like you lump them all in together. Is that intentional?

Are you talking abour "RE" as is taught is Engish schools at the moment OP? or as a general topic?

@mostlydrinkstea yes, sorry. It's how my supervisor advised me to structure it. I would have had more distinct sections but I was told that would lead to too many Qs. Sorry for the confusion.

@speakout yes as a subject taught in schools.

RE as a subject varies. So are you focussed on RE as it is taught in English schools? Primary or secondary?
As I understand RE in England has a heavy bias towrads christianity and may include some indoctrination ir worship.
In other parts of the UK RE is taught in different ways,
Although there is a requirement to lead active worship in all schools Scotland teach a subject called RMPS- Religious, Moral and Philosphical studies, which is an objective study course examining very broad issues.

It may help define what you mean by RE.

My son does RE with ethics and philosophy and loves it.

We're religious btw.

The teacher is ace too.

Happy to chat in more depth

Yes you need to define by RE. I only know about the English context where each local authority will have an agreed RE syllabus. This is the one for Essex schools.essex.gov.uk/other/Essex_SACRE/Documents/RE%20AGREED%20SYLLABUS%202015%

In England RE teaches about the major world faiths with Christianity usually as the main faith that is taught. It should be taught as an academic subject.

Worship is different and is not part of RE. As the local parish priest I go into schools to lead assemblies which might have prayers in them if I'm in a church school.

Defining spirituality is something else that could be really useful. The practices that you list can be used as part of spiritual practice or they might not. I teach people how to pray which is spiritual and part of my faith practice. In that I use breath technique, body awareness and being in the present moment. It looks a lot like mindfulness because mindfulness is rooted in the spiritual traditions of Christianity and Buddhism. Mindfulness strips out the faith context which makes for interesting conversations about what people think they are doing but you have missed this out completely by sticking them all together.

What you are doing is interesting but from my perspective working with these issues in schools it lacks focus. Define your terms and have a clear hypothesis that you are aiming to explore.

Under classified is a NFP survey subsection. Might be worth posting there as well.

I've completed this. I think it might be worth you sharing in another forum, maybe education or chat or you are likely to get responses that are biased towards religion.