This programme, which draws on Warwick research in religious education, is available by distance learning. Students receive study guides, written by members of the programme team, and module readers for each module. Students are kept in close contact with their tutors at Warwick and with each other. The programme is especially concerned with religious education in religiously and culturally plural societies. It attracts students from the UK and from a range of countries including Hong Kong, Canada, Norway and Ireland.
Tutors do their best to offer advice on gaining funding for the module.
To enable participants to engage with key issues in religious education and to consider these in relation to their own education systems. To devise ways of approaching religious education in religiously and culturally plural societies. To develop skills in interpreting the religious and cultural ways of lives of others and in presenting this material to others. To develop knowledge and understanding of selected religious traditions. To develop appropriate skills in conducting research and evaluating research in religious education.