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Philosophical Perspectives on the Future of Religious Education: the aims, justification and subject matter of RE A response to the RE Council’s Review of Religious Education (Phase 2) http://resubjectreview.recouncil.org.uk/ Supported jointly by the  Philosophy of Education Society of Great Brita in and the  Forum for Religious and Spiritual Education  (FORASE), King’s College London Public Meeting,  9th July 17:30 – 19:30 Respondents: Dr Philip Barnes Reader in Religious and Theological Education, King’s College London Professor James Conroy Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education, University of Glasgow Andrew Copson Chief Executive, British Humanist Association Professor Denise Cush Professor of Religion and Education, Bath Spa University King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room 1.16 Waterloo Campus Directions:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/waterloo/Waterloo.aspx To confirm attendance please contact David Aldridge (daldridge@brookes.ac.u

David Aldridge, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences In September 2012 the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, together with the Farmington Institute, sponsored a conference in ‘Critical Realism, Religion and Education’ that was attended by over sixty delegates from around the world, including education practitioners, undergraduates and research students and academics from a wide range of disciplines. The mutual interest of the conference was the question of how issues of religion, reality and truth are to be addressed in educational contexts and communities. Keynote speakers, all of international renown, included Professor Roy Bhaskar, World Scholar at the Institute of Education, University of London and the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, a theoretical approach that is increasingly gaining recognition as a methodological ‘under-labourer’ for research in the social sciences; Professor Alister McGrath, the ren