Professor Phillip Barnes was Senior Lecturer in Religious Education at King’s College London and is widely published on the problems associated with new proposal for Worldviews and Religious Education. Read the preface to his forthcoming book in which he outlines his major concerns.
The volume, Religion and Worldviews: The triumph of the secular in religious education, contains articles by other leading academics keen to contribute to alert us to problems with the worldviews approach, such as Professor Roger Trigg Professor Michael J Reiss, Dr Marius Flederhof, the late Professor Anthony Towey, Dr Penny Thompson, Professor Daniel Moulin-Stozek. Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Patricia Hannam and Professor Friedrich Schweitzer (who gives a perspective from Germany).