Realising the potential of RE: representation, reflection and research

Abstract

Almost a decade has passed since OFSTED, in 2013, published Religious Education: Realising the Potential. It argued that RE in schools is generally overcrowded, incoherent and confusing for pupils, and the curriculum is commonly lacking in terms of progression, coherence and breadth and balance. Since then, numerous initiatives have sought to address these issues and, in so doing, re-consider what potential RE has, and how that might be realised.