Conclusions and recommendations

Abstract

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a study conference conducted under the auspices of a university department of education. It explains the significance of the recommendations that will be self evident to all who are professionally engaged in religious education. The book describes the ‘myth of religious education given by a mass of unbelieving conscripts’. It discusses how little there is to prevent secondary school teachers taking full advantage of the conscience clause. The book also discusses the staffing crisis in religious education and suggests that what the annual intake of theology graduates into teaching should be if religious education is to remain a live option, particularly in the grammar and comprehensive schools. It analyses the historical origins of existing theological courses and commented on the changed nature of the contemporary situation.