NEICE Research Interests
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The Institute ceased its activity and the charity was dissolved at the end of April 2013
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NEICE Research Interests
NEICE 1981 – 2013
ARCHIVE WEBSITE
The Institute ceased its activity and the charity was dissolved at the end of April 2013
This is a copy of the NEICE website active at that date
Christianity in School and University
Some Relevant Publications
Mark Corner, ‘”Theology” and “Religious Studies”: some points of comparison’, NEICE, 1986
Jeff Astley, ‘Theology and Curriculum Selection: a theoretical problem in teaching Christianity in religious education’, British Journal of Religious Education, 10, 1988
Jeff Astley, ‘Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up?’, British Journal of Religious Education, 15, 1992
Jeff Astley and David Day (eds), The Contours of Christian Education, McCrimmons, 1992, Part Two, Section One
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Jeff Astley, ‘The Place of Understanding in Christian Education and Education about Christianity’, British Journal of Religious Education, 16, 1994
Jeff Astley and Leslie J Francis (eds), Critical Perspectives on Christian Education: a reader on the aims, principles and philosophy of Christian education, Fowler Wright, 1994
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Jeff Astley, ‘Communities, Feelings and Education’, Aspects of Education, 51, 1995
Jeff Astley and Leslie J Francis (eds), Christian Theology and Religious Education: connections and contradictions, SPCK, 1996
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Jeff Astley, Leslie J Francis and Colin Crowder (eds), Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation: a reader on theology and Christian education, Gracewing/Eerdmans, 1996, especially Section 10
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Nick Watson, ‘Wholly or Mainly . . . Broadly Christian? Worship, theology and Department for Education’, MATR dissertation, University of Durham, 1996
Jeff Astley, ‘An Alternative Christian Perspective’, in J Shortt and T Cooling (eds), An Agenda for Educational Change, Apollos, 1997
Jeff Astley, ‘Christian Values and the Management of Schools’, in William K Kay and Leslie J Francis (eds), Religion in Education 2, Gracewing, 1998
Leslie J Francis, Michael Fearn, Jeff Astley and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘The Relationship between Christian Commitment and Motivation to Study Religion at A-level: A Preliminary Investigation’, Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 3, 2, 1999
Jeff Astley, ‘Plurality, Dialogue and Religious Education’, International Journal of Education and Religion, 1, 2000
Jeff Astley, Leslie J Francis and M Robbins (eds), The Fourth R for the Third Millennium: education in religion and values for the global future, Veritas, 2001
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Jeff Astley, et al., ‘What is the Church’s Mission to the Nation and What Part Do Church Schools Play?’, Journal of the Association of Anglican Secondary Schools, 8, 2001
Jeff Astley and Leslie J Francis, ‘Christian Nurture and Critical Openness: an empirical investigation among undergraduates’, Religious Education, 97, 2002
Jeff Astley, ‘Church, Schools and the Theology of Christian Education’, Journal of the Association of Anglican School Heads, 10, 2002
Jeff Astley, ‘Evangelism in Education: Impossibility, Travesty or Necessity?’, International Journal of Education and Religion, 3, 2002
Leslie J Francis and Jeff Astley (eds), Children, Churches and Christian Learning, SPCK, 2002
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Jeff Astley, ‘Spiritual Learning: Good for Nothing?’, in David Carr and John Haldane (eds), Spirituality, Philosophy and Education (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003)
Jeff Astley, ‘Christian Models of Leadership’, in William K Kay, Leslie J Francis and Keith Watson (eds), Religion in Edition: 4 (Gracewing,2003)
Jeff Astley, ‘On Making Education Christian’, Borderlands: A Journal of Theology & Education, 3, Summer 2004,
Jeff Astley, ‘Christian Ethics in the Classroom, Curriculum and Corridor’, Studies in Christian Ethics, 17, 1, 2004
Jeff Astley, ‘What is Religion and Whose Faith is it Anyway? Some Issues concerning the Nature and Normativity of Religion, and the Risks of Religious Education’, in H. Lombaerts and D. Pollefeyt (eds), Hermeneutics and Religious Education (Leuven University Press, 2004)
Jeff Astley, Leslie Francis, John Sullivan and Andrew Walker (eds), The Idea of a Christian University: Essays on Theology and Higher Education (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2004)
Jeff Astley, ‘Christian Teaching, Christian Learning and Christian Love: Education as Christian Ministry and Spiritual Discipline’, in Jeff Astley, Leslie Francis, John Sullivan and Andrew Walker (eds), The Idea of a Christian University: Essays on Theology and Higher Education (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2004)
Jeff Astley, ‘Religious Schooling and the Challenge of the Poor’, Journal of Empirical Theology, 18, 1, 2005
Jeff Astley, ‘The Science and Religion Interface within Young People’s Attitudes and Beliefs’, in Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins and Jeff Astley (eds), Religion, Education and Adolescence: International Empirical Perspectives, University of Wales Press, 2005
Jeff Astley, ‘Crossing the Divide?’, in Marius Felderhof, PennyThompson and David Torevell (eds), Inspiring Faith in Schools: Studies in Religious Education,Ashgate, 2007
Jeff Astley, ‘Public and Personal Peace in Life, Religion and Education: An Exercise in Ordinary Theology’, in Jeff Astley, Leslie J Francis and Mandy Robbins (eds), Peace or Violence: The Ends of Religion and Education? , University of Wales Press, 2007
Jeff Astley, ‘The Meanings of Religious Education’, Tro & Liv (Sweden), 66, 2007
Jeff Astley, ‘The Place of Story in Religion’, REsource, 29, 3, Summer 2007
Jeff Astley, ‘Religion versus Darwin: Should Evolution Denial Go to School?’, Theology, CXII, 868, 2009
Jeff Astley, ‘What Does Christianity Have to Say to “Secular” Education?’, Journal of Chaplaincy in Further Education, 2010
Jeff Astley, ‘Myth and Symbol’, Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy, 36, 2011
Jeff Astley, ‘Teaching about Christian Teaching’, RE Today, 28, 1, 2011
Jeff Astley, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins and Mualla Selçuk (eds), Teaching Religion, Teaching Truth: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives , Peter Lang, 2012
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Jeff Astley, ‘Church Schools and the Church’s Service for the Poor’, in Howard J. Worsley (ed.), Anglican Church School Education: Moving Beyond the First Two Hundred Years, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
See also Bibliography of recent work on church schools.
See also Books, Articles, essays and reports and Research theses.
Current Projects
- theology of church schools