Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations (2022)
Journal Article
Hill, E., & Woolley, R. (2022). Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations. Religions, 13(4), Article 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13040280

In England, religious education (RE) is a part of the basic curriculum mandatory for all pupils in the compulsory years of schooling. This paper explores how RE and spirituality interact and whether one can contribute to the effective delivery of the... Read More about Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations.

Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce (2018)
Journal Article
Woolley, R. (2019). Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce. Educational review, 71(6), 730-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1471666

Bullying is defined in a variety of ways in different contexts, and each individual school in England is required to develop its own working definition, parameters and policy. This paper explores a variety of definitions from government and third sec... Read More about Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce.