ISREV 2010 - Detailed Program

(Updatedwith all known changesby Yaakov Katzafter the session)

Sunday 25th July

13:00SeminarRegistration in Atrium

14:00 -16:00ISREV Committee Meeting

17:30- 18:30Reception

18:30Welcoming Banquet- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

20:30Refreshments and Social Activity - Atrium

Monday 26th July

07:30 - 09:00Breakfast-Laframboise 142 Dining Room

09:00 - 10:30Plenary Presentation - Room 1124

Chair: Gloria Durka

Presenter:James Conroy

Title: Does religious education work?

Respondent:Rob Freathy

10:30- 11:00Coffee Break

11:00-12:15Collegial Paper Session 1

RoomSlot 1a

Chair:Yisrael Rich

Presenter 1:Roseanne McDougall

Title:Service-Learning: actualizing freedom of religion and belief Respondent 1: Geir Skeie

Presenter 2:Brian Gates

Title:How far is the notion of ‘conscience’ redundant?

Respondent 2:Glynis Parker

RoomSlot 1b

Chair:Reinhold Boschki

Presenter 1:Michael Buchanan

Title:The significance of peer review upon the professional growth of

pre-service religious education teachers

Respondent 1:Rene Ferguson

Presenter 2:Peta Goldburg

Title:Religious education a foundation for freedom of religion and belief

Respondent 2:Mario D'Souza

RoomSlot 1c

Chair:Alma Lanser- van der Velde

Presenter 1:Elisabet Haakedal

Title:To sing or not to sing - texts, contexts and practices multimodal encounters of pupils, religious and ethichal songs, and learning situatons in the Norwegian primary school from 1987-2009

Respondent 1:Sherry Blumberg

Presenter 2:Nigel Fancourt

Title:International inter-religious dialogue: evaluating the ‘face to faith’ project

Respondent 2:Elisabeth Arweck

RoomSlot 1d

Chair:John Fisher

Presenter 1:Karin Sporre

Title:Human dignity in educational practice

Respondent 1:Oddrun Bråten

Presenter 2:Leona English

Title:Educating the adult laity: a church concern

Respondent 2:Heon-WookPark

RoomSlot 1e

Chair:Leslie Francis

Presenter 1: Hans-Gunter Heimbrock

Title: Title:Freedom of religion and restrictions of the constitution on the way toIslamic RE in German state schools

Respondent 1:Judith Everington

Presenter 2:Wilna Meijer

Title:Tenacious humility / persistent modesty: on the ethos of education

Respondent 2:Howard Summers

12:15 - 14:00Lunch - Laframboise 142 Dining Room

14:00 - 15:15Collegial Paper Session 2

RoomSlot 2a

Chair:Liam Gearon

Presenter 1:Johannes Laehnemann

Title:Jesus breaking limits: the relevance of the Gospel for religious and interreligiouslearning

Respondent 1:Mireille Estivalezes

Presenter 2:Heinz Streib and Constantin Klein

Title:From xenophobia to xenosophia: new empirical evidence

Respondent 2:Heid Leganger-Krogstad

RoomSlot 2b

Chair:Paul McQuillan

Presenter 1:Petro du Preez

Title:Morality, human rights and freedom of religion and belief in religion education

Respondent 1:Bernd Krupka

Presenter 2:Mary Elizabeth Moore

Title:Theological education and interreligious engagement

Respondent 2:Kevin Wanden

RoomSlot 2c

Chair:Doug Blomberg

Presenter 1:Thorsten Knauth

Title:Results on teenage perspectives in Europe on religious pluralism in school and society: a qualitative study

Respondent 1:Hefziba Lifshitz

Presenter 2:John Fisher

Title:Students’ views on relating with God for spiritual wellbeing

Respondent 2:Jan Grajczonek

RoomSlot 2d

Chair: James Conroy

Presenter 1:Stefan Altmeyer

Title:New empirical ways of exploring God-talk

Respondent 1:Fred Mwesigwa

Presenter 2:John Hull

Title:Training for prophetic ministry: practical theology in action for social justice

Respondent 2:Eugene McElhinney

RoomSlot 2e

Chair: Glynis Parker

Presenter 1:Shan Simmonds

Title:Learners’ perceptions of human rights in shaping their understanding offreedom of religion and belief

Respondent 1:Bas van den Berg

Presenter 2:Lynn Revell

Title:Faith, professionalism and objectivity

Respondent 2:Stephen McKinney

15:15 - 15:30Coffee Break

15:30–16:45Collegial Paper Session 3

RoomSlot 3a

Chair:Nam Soon Song

Presenter 1:Halldis Breidlid

Title:Inclusion and exclusion of religious traditions in Norwegian RE curricula, with special focus on Sikhism

Respondent 1:Christina Osbeck

Presenter 2:Yaacov Katz

Title:Religious education in the state religious educational sector in israel: no room for freedom of religion and belief

Respondent 2:Cornelia Roux

RoomSlot 3b

Chair:Peta Goldburg

Presenter 1:Kerstin von Brömssen

Title:Governmentality and normalizing technologies in a ”new moral economy”

Respondent 1:Sven Hartman

Presenter 2:Martin Ubani

Title:Becoming a RE teacher: a study of Finnish teacher students during their pedagogical training

Respondent 2:Bernadette Okure

Symposium 1 Session 1

Chair: Hans-Georg Ziebertz

Presenter 1:Reinhold Boschki

Title: Education after and about Auschwitz in Germany

Presenter 2: Zehavit Gross

Title: Holocaust education in Jewish schools in Israel: goals, dilemmas, challenges

Presenter 3: Thomas Schlag

Title: Holocaust remembrance, human rights and religious education in Switzerland

RespondentUlrich Schwab

Symposium 2 Session 1

Chair:Cornelia Roux

Presenter 1:Leo van der Tuin

Title: Hidden religiosity

Presenter 2: Tuur de Beer

Title: Wittgenstein’s ‘Symbolic Praxis’

Presenter 3: Alma Lanser-van der Velde

Title: Save or discard

Presenter 4:Cok Bakker

Title: Hermeneutics of every day practice: an analysis of teachers’ narratives on schools’ identity

Presenter 5:Ina ter Avest

Title: Learning and teaching for "hidden religiosity"

Respondent:Marian de Souza

Symposium 3 Session 1

Chair: Peter Schreiner

Presenter 1:Freidrich Schweitzer

Title: Christian education in comparative perspective: researching confirmation work in seven European countries

Presenter 2: Bernd Krupka

Title: Do confirmant experiences, workers' aims and the aims of official guidelines in confirmation work correspond? Some results from an empirical study on confirmation work in seven European countries

Presenter 3: Oddrun Bråten

Title: A methodology for comparative religious education (RE) from a study of England and Norway

Respondent:Siebren Miedema

16:45 - 17:15Break

17:15 - 18:30Collegial Paper Session 4

RoomSlot 4a

Chair: Margaret Myrtle Power

Presenter 1:Yaacov Yablon

Title:Religious based dialogue as a way to enhance positive intergroup relations between conflict groups

Respondent 1:Mary Elizabeth Moore

Presenter 2:Karin Walshe

Title:Understanding ‘understanding’ in religious education

Respondent 2:Chae Young Kim

RoomSlot 4b

Chair:John Valk

Presenter 1:Rune Larsson

Title:Who needs religious education in the academy? A defense for RE as a strong and independent academic discipline

Respondent 1:Jeff Astley

Presenter 2:Rob Freathy and Stephen Parker

Title:Freedom from religious beliefs: a case-study from the history of English RE

Respondent 2:Joyce Miller

Symposium 1 Session 2

Chair: Hans-Georg Ziebertz

Presenter 1:Reinhold Boschki

Title: Education after and about Auschwitz in Germany

Presenter 2: Zehavit Gross

Title: Holocaust education in Jewish schools in Israel: goals, dilemmas, challenges

Presenter 3: Thomas Schlag

Title: Holocaust remembrance, human rights and religious education in Switzerland

RespondentUlrich Schwab

Symposium 2 Session 2

Chair:Cornelia Roux

Presenter 1:Leo van der Tuin

Title: Hidden religiosity

Presenter 2: Tuur de Beer

Title: Wittgenstein’s ‘Symbolic Praxis’

Presenter 3: Alma Lanser-van der Velde

Title: Save or discard

Presenter 4:Cok Bakker

Title: Hermeneutics of every day practice: an analysis of teachers’ narratives on schools’ identity

Presenter 5:Ina ter Avest

Title: Learning and teaching for "hidden religiosity"

Respondent:Marian de Souza

Symposium 3 Session 2

Chair: Peter Schreiner

Presenter 1:Freidrich Schweitzer

Title: Christian education in comparative perspective: researching confirmation work in seven European countries

Presenter 2: Bernd Krupka

Title: Do confirmant experiences, workers' aims and the aims of official guidelines in confirmation work correspond? Some results from an empirical study on confirmation work in seven European countries

Presenter 3: Oddrun Bråten

Title: A methodology for comparative religious education (RE) from a study of England and Norway

Respondent:Siebren Miedema

18:30Dinner- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

20:30Refreshments and Social Activity - Atrium

Tuesday 27th July

07:30 - 09:00Breakfast- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

09:00 - 10:30Plenary Presentation - Room 1124

Chair:Friedrich Schweitzer

Presenter:Kathleen Engebretson

Title:Whose freedom? Flexing the boundaries of religious freedom in thereligiously affiliated educational institution.

Respondent:Sherry Blumberg

10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15Collegial Paper Session 5

RoomSlot 5a

Chair:Brian Gates

Presenter 1:Stephen McKinney

Title:Measuring the service to the poor in Catholic schools (American and Scottish perspectives)

Respondent 1:Mette Buchardt

Presenter 2:Rene Ferguson

Title:Communities of practice: encountering the unexpected with narratives of religious diversity

Respondent 2:Karin Sporre

RoomSlot 5b

Chair:Manfred Pirner

Presenter 1:Philip Barnes

Title:British religious education and the challenge of diversity

Respondent 1:Robert Jackson

RoomSlot 5c

Chair:Roseanne McDougall

Presenter 1:Elisabeth Arweck

Title:“Mixed-faith families in the UK: where does religious education come in?”

Respondent 1:Thomas Schlag

Presenter 2:Bernd Schröder

Title:Freedom of religion in France and Germany – different readings and their implications for RE

Respondent 2:Karlo Meyer

RoomSlot 5d

Chair: Elisabet Haakedal

Presenter 1:Jeff Astley

Title:Can we choose our beliefs? A philosophical question for religious education

Respondent 1:Margaret Myrtle Power

Presenter 2:Kevin Wanden

Title:Challenges facing classroom religious educators in Catholic secondary schools in New Zealand

Respondent 2:Richard Rymarz

RoomSlot 5e

Chair: Kerstin von Brömssen

Presenter 1: Mark Keith Hillis

Title:Threat, promise or opportunity? Perceptions emerging from submissions to human rights and freedom of religion and belief proposals in Australia

Respondent 1:Doug Blomberg

Presenter 2:Sidsel Lied

Title:Students in research

Respondent 2:Nam Soon Song

12:15 - 14:00Lunch - Laframboise 142 Dining Room

14:00 - 15:15Collegial Paper Session 6

RoomSlot 6a

Chair:Heon-WookPark

Presenter 1:Lorna Bowman

Title:Freedom of religion & publicly-funded religious schools in Canada

Respondent 1:Karen Walshe

Presenter 2:Kari Flornes

Title:Promoting professional and personal development in initial teacher education through religious education

Respondent 2:Zehavit Gross

RoomSlot 6b

Chair:Howard Summers

Presenter 1:Fred Mwesigwa

Title:Freedom of religion and belief in Uganda: a road block to joint religious education

Respondent 1:Stefan Altmeyer

Presenter 2:Shira Iluz and Yisrael Rich

Title:Religious sanctity and civil sanctity: a comparative study of national commemoration days in the Israeli junior high school

Respondent 2:Yaacov Katz

RoomSlot 6c

Chair:Stephen Parker

Presenter 1:Judith Everington

Title:What kinds of knowledge do re teachers need?

Respondent 1:John Fisher

Presenter 2:Diane Moore

Title:“Situated knowledges”: a cultural studies tool to promote freedom of diverse religious expressions in secular schools and community contexts

Respondent 2:Leona English

RoomSlot 6d

Chair:Gunter Schmidt

Presenter 1:David Lankshear and Mandy Robbins

Title:Clergy and schools- a study of the relationship within the Church in Wales

Respondent 1:Mark Keith Hillis

Presenter 2:Uzeyir Ok

Title:Human rights and religiosity: a Turkish secondary school sample

Respondent 2:Leo van der Tuin

RoomSlot 6e

Chair: Mireille Estivalezes

Presenter 1:Joyce Miller

Title:Pupils’ and teachers’ views on religion and religious education: a qualitative comparison

Respondent 1:Kerstin von Brömssen

Presenter 2:Karin Nordstrom

Title:Can we educate for freedom? Ethical perspectives on the pedagogic paradox freedom and autonomy as pedagogic ideals

Respondent 2:Ina ter Avest

15:15 - 15:30Coffee Break

15:30–16:45Collegial Paper Session 7

RoomSlot 7a

Chair:Karin Sporre

Presenter 1:Mario D'Souza

Title:Pluralist societies, first principles, and the freedom of religion and belief

Respondent 1:Tuur de Beer

Presenter 2:Robert Jackson

Title:Education about religions and beliefs within a human rights framework: European policy recommendations

Respondent 2:Norman Richardson

RoomSlot 7b

Chair:Anthony Ozele

Presenter 1:Heon-WookPark

Title:The state and religious education - reviewing the political educational thought of Shigeru Nambara

Respondent 1:Reinhold Boschki

Presenter 2:Hideko Omori

Title:Jinzo Naruse’s educational theory based on Concordia, Kiitsu

Respondent 2:Alma Lanser-van der Velde

RoomSlot 7c

Chair:Dzintra Ilisko

Presenter 1:Elisabeth Naurath

Title:The development of sympathy as a concept to prevent violence

Respondent 1:Rune Larsson

Presenter 2:Mireille Estivalezes

Title:Teaching “ethics and religious culture” in Québec: restricting religious freedom or opening students onto new social realities?

Respondent 2:Heinz Streib

RoomSlot 7d

Chair:Bernd Schröder

Presenter 1:Arto Kallioniemi

Title:Religious education as a part of human rights: a Finnish perspective

Respondent 1:Jack Priestley

Presenter 2:Howard Summers

Title:Does religious education at South African Catholic schools lead to tolerance of other religions?

Respondent 2:Antti Räsänen

RoomSlot 7e

Chair: Cok Bakker

Presenter 1:Sven Hartman

Title:Human rights for children? Janusz Korczak and children’s right to freedom of belief

Respondent 1:Yaacov Yablon

Presenter 2:Doug Blomberg

Title:An inclusive conception of religion as condition for freedom of religion and belief

Respondent 2:Mualla Selcuk

16:45- 17:15Break

17:15 - 18:30Collegial Paper Session 8

RoomSlot 8a

Chair:Wilna Meijer

Presenter 1:Mette Buchardt

Title:‘The Historically Objective Gospel’ and ‘The Gospel of Labor’. Aage Bentzen’s and Edv Lehmann’s visions of cultural nurture in ‘a school for the whole population’

Respondent 1:Reinhold Mokrosch

Presenter 2:Marian de Souza

Title:Promoting inter-spiritual education in the classroom: exploring the perennial philosophy as a useful strategy to encourage freedom of religious practice and belief

Respondent 2:Olga Schihalejev

RoomSlot 8b

Chair: Leona English

Presenter 1:Jan Grajczonek

Title:Acknowledging religious diversity and empowering young children’s agency and voice in the religion classroom

Respondent 1:Halldis Breidlid

Presenter 2:John Valk

Title:Worldview education in a changing world

Respondent 2:Stephen Parker

RoomSlot 8c

Chair: Yaacov Yablon

Presenter 1:Julian Stern

Title:Liberating music and the spirit of the school: using music in schools to express religious diversity and to resolve religious conflict

Respondent 1:Leslie Francis

Presenter 2:Antti Räsänen

Title:The interplay between theory and observation: fact or fable in religious development

Respondent 2:Wolfram Weisse

RoomSlot 8d

Chair: Kathleen Engebretson

Presenter 1:Gunnar J Gunnarsson

Title:Living in a field of tension: a study on Icelandic teenagers life interpretation and values

Respondent 1:Michael Buchanan

Presenter 2:Paul McQuillan

Title:Who’s coming to school today? An exploration of the beliefs, values and the attitudes of students, parents, and teachers in some Brisbane Catholic schools

Respondent 2:Sidsel Lied

RoomSlot 8e

Chair: Christoph Scheilke

Presenter 1:Chae Young Kim

Title:Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Bernard Lonergan on faith

Respondent 1:Lynn Revell

Presenter 2:Heid Leganger-Krogstad

Title:The hidden curriculum of worldviews in different school subjects: knowledge on religions as a key to reveal them

Respondent 2:Liam Gearon

18:30 Dinner- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

20:30Refreshments and Social Activity – Atrium

Wednesday 28th July

07:30 - 09:00Breakfast- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

09:00 - 10:30Plenary Presentation - Room 1124

Chair:Julian Stern

Presenter:Liam Gearon

Title:The role of religion as a freedom of expression campaign issue in the history of English PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists), 1921-2011

RespondentMandy Robbins

11:00Lunch- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

12:15Outing

18:30Dinner- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

20:30Refreshments and Social Activity - Atrium

Thursday 29th July

07:30 - 09:00Breakfast- Laframboise 142 Dining Room

09:00 - 10:30Plenary Presentation - Room 1124

Chair: Hans-Gunter Heimbrock

Presenter:Dzintra Ilisko

Title:The quandary of religious freedom in a new democracy in Latvia

Respondent:David Lankshear

10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15Collegial Paper Session 9

RoomSlot 9a

Chair: Fred Mwesigwa

Presenter 1:Heftziba Lifshitz, Rivka Glaubman, Yaacov Katz

Title:Jewish literacy among participants with a low cognitive level

Respondent 1:Elisabeth Naurath

Presenter 2:Eugene McElhinney

Title:‘The catholic church is dated – its priests are old and scary and the Mass is boring. But I do love Jesus’: a comparative study of the religious practices and moral judgements of sixth-form students in a Catholic grammar school in 1995 and 2008

Respondent 2:Uzeyir Ok

RoomSlot 9b

Chair: Stefan Altmeyer

Presenter 1:Mandy Robbins

Title:The Teenage Religion And Values Survey in England and Wales

Respondent 1:John Hull

Presenter 2:Karlo Meyer

Title:Problems and chances of the teaching and learning of traditional Lutheran rituals in the German Society

Respondent 2:Julian Stern

RoomSlot 9c

Chair: Siebren Miedema

Presenter 1:Hans-Georg Ziebertz

Title:Religion and the rights to freedom in the perspective of Christian and Muslim youth in Germany

Respondent 1:Shan Simmonds

Presenter 2:Richard Rymarz

Title:Doing God’s work: a study of Ukrainian Greek Catholic catechists in Alberta

Respondent 2:Nigel Fancourt

RoomSlot 9d

Chair: Karen Walshe

Presenter 1:Reinhold Mokrosch

Title:Is there any room for freedom of religion within the Indian Hinduism? Or is it possible to educate fanatic Hindus?

Respondent 1:Roseanne McDougall

Presenter 2:Glynis Parker

Title:What does religion mean to South Africans? A cross-cultural study

Respondent 2:Lorna Bowman

RoomSlot 9e

Chair: Kevin Wanden

Presenter 1:Leslie Francis

Title:Personality and the happiness of others: a study among 13- to 15-year-old adolescents

Respondent 1:Bernd Schröder

Presenter 2:Yisrael Rich

Title:Identity education in Jewish religious secondary schools: educators' instrumental and exploration motives

Respondent 2:Brian Gates

12:15 - 14:00Lunch - Laframboise 142 Dining Room

14:00 - 15:15Collegial Paper Session 10

RoomSlot 10a

Chair: Mandy Robbins

Presenter 1:Siebren Miedema

Title:Liberal democratic societies and the need for religiouscitizenship education

Respondent 1:Kari Flornes

Presenter 2: Anthony Ozele

Title:Re-imagining religious education for social engagement: contextualizing challenges of inculturation in sub-Saharan Africa

Respondent 2:Gunnar J Gunnarsson

RoomSlot 10b

Chair: David Lankshear

Presenter 1:Bernadette Eyewan Okure

Title:Discovering photos’ hidden resources for religious education, transformation, solidarity and revitalizing freedom: a methodology

Respondent 1:Petro du Preez

Presenter 2:Christina Osbeck

Title:Aims of Swedish RE teachers of teenagers

Respondent 2:Hans-Georg Ziebertz

RoomSlot 10c

Chair: Nigel Fancourt

Presenter 1:Kevin O’Grady

Title:Freedom of belief for English religious education pupils: some findings from the Warwick REDCo community of practice

Respondent 1:Hans-Gunter Heimbrock

Presenter 2:Geir Skeie

Title:Religious education in the academia: a case for theology or religious studies?

Respondent 2:Martin Ubani

RoomSlot 10d

Chair: Sherry Blumberg

Presenter 1:Margaret Myrtle Power

Title:Contemporary religious education curriculum in Catholic Schools in Canada: hermeneutical considerations