These papers and presentations were given at the 2011 annual meeting of the Religious Education Association . The Call for Papers Committee selected Research Interest Group and Colloquium papers based on abstracts submitted by the authors. The papers, as they exist on this site, have not been edited or fully juried by REA. The author of a paper is fully responsible for its content. All links are to “pdf” formatted files, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.
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Research Interest Groups
Dori Baker: Inside the Teenage Girls’ Brain: Practices toward Resilient, Adaptive Spirituality
G.D. Bertram-Troost: The positioning of Protestant primary schools in the secular age. Results of an empirical research project in the Netherlands
Michael Bickford: An Evaluation of the Contribution of John H. Westerhoff III to Religious Education
Doug Blomberg: The heart has reasons that reason cannot know
Lorna Bowman: Are Women Person’s?: The Case of Canada’s Famous Five
Donna Eschenauer: Memory and Imagination: The Easter Triduum Teaching How to Live and How to Die
Tanya Eustace: Pneumatology and Neuroscience: Understanding Children as Meaning Makers
John P Falcone: A Performative Aesthetics for RE: Theater of the Oppressed and Neuroscience
Matthew Geiger: Introducing reflective practices in schools: what I’ve learned from the practice of “notebooking”
Mary Hess: Mirror neurons, the development of empathy and digital storytelling
Luz Ibarra: Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Religious Education
Lisa Kimball: Being Godparent: From Honored Tradition to Transformative Practice
Eric Kyle: Spiritualizing Mind: A Brain-based Approach to Formation
Graham McDonough: Catholic Schools and the Ecclesial Construction of the Laity: Consequences for the Future Church.
William Miller: Empathy and Moral Formation: Practicing Virtue in an Age of Neuroscience
Ina ter Avest: Youngsters Need the Brain to Challenge Worldview Formation; a provocative pedagogy
Kathleen Turner: An Artistic Review of Religious Education
Nam Soon Song: Sunday School Revisited: An alternative to Christian Education of the Church today?
Tamar Wasoian: Care and Guilt: Armenian Women’s Communal Experience
Colloquia (supplemental materials)
Eileen Daily: The Potential for Mobile Technology to Facilitate Playful Religious Engagement with the World
Ryan Gardner: Improving Teacher Reflection in the Religious Education Classroom
Holly Inglis: Hearers and Doers: implications of brain-based learning on faith formation and religious behavior
Johanna Selles: Educating for Empathy: The Science of Caring