INFORM: Minority Religions and Schooling

Inform Autumn Seminar
Minority Religions and Schooling

Date - Saturday, 6 December 2014; 9.30am - 4.45pm
Location – New Academic Building, London School of Economics

‘State multiculturalism has failed’, declared David Cameron in 2011.  Yet there is a continued expansion in state-funded religious schooling in Britain. This expansion has gone hand-in-hand with legal rulings that have placed minority religions on stronger footing next to the more established faiths. After exponential growth of Academies operating outside of local authority control since 2000, and three years after the first Free Schools opened their doors (a programme which has assisted the expansion of a diversity of faith-based schools), it is a good opportunity to take stock and reflect on the nature of minority faith schooling in Britain.

 

Registration is now open and can be done using a credit/debit card through PayPal or by posting a booking form and a cheque payable to 'Inform' to Inform, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE. Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 10 November 2014 are £38 each (£18 students/unwaged). Tickets booked after 10 November 2014 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged). A limited number of seats will be made available to A-Level students at £10 before 10 November 2014 (£20 after 10 November). 

 

 

 

Provisional Programme
The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.
The aim of Inform Seminars is to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives.

 

9.30 - 10.00	REGISTRATION
10.00 - 10.10	Eileen Barker (Founder and Honorary Research Fellow, Inform) Welcome and Housekeeping
10.10 - 10.35	Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist (Deputy Director, Inform) and Suzanne Newcombe (Research Officer at Inform) Minority Religions and Schooling
10.35 - 11.00	Farid Panjwani (Director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education at the Institute of Education, University of London) Muslims and Faith Schools: identity and social aspiration in a minority religion'
11.00 – 11.25	Damon Boxer (Assistant Director, Academies and Free Schools Policy, Department for Education) Government Policy on Minority Religions and Schools
11.25 – 11.50	TEA/COFFEE
11.50 – 12.15	Ozcan Keles (Executive Director of the Dialogue Society) Fethullah Gulen-inspired Hizmet schools from an alumnus: basics, characteristics and critique
12.15 – 12.40	Nitesh Gor (Chief Executive, Avanti Schools Trust) Inclusivity and Fidelity
12.40 - 13.05	Richy Thompson (Campaigns Officer (Faith Schools and Education), British Humanist Association) A Humanist Perspective on Minority Religions and Schooling
13.05 - 14.15	LUNCH/BOOK LAUNCH
14.15 - 14.40	Graham Kennish Vision as Mediator between Faith, Belief, Experience and Knowledge'
14.40 - 15.05	Jonny Scaramanga (Doctoral student at the Institute of Education) The History of Accelerated Christian Education in the United Kingdom
15.05 - 15.30	TEA/COFFEE
15.30 - 15.55	Jo Fageant (SIAMS inspector and Principal RE Adviser, Oxford Diocesan Board of Education) Faith and Inspection in Church of England schools
15.55 – 16.45	GENERAL PANEL DISCUSSION

 

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