The European Forum for Teachers
of Religious Education

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The 2010 conference took place in Bruges, in Belgium

Spring 2010 EFTRE newsletter - publications

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EFTRE is pleased to promote the MA in RE by distance learning from Warwick University.
EFTRE is devloping links with the European Wegeland Centre.
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NEWS

See the publications pages for books of interest including a new book by Bert Roebben.

Council of Europe’s White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue - download

Council of Europe 2009 Exchange on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue - link

REDCo book: A new book in the REDCo series "RE Research through a community of practice" - link

Teaching about Religions in European School Systems – Policy issues and trends - more

Faith to Face a new initiative on religious dialogue - more

Berlin rejects religious lessons - read more

REDCo recommendations are now published - read

Conferences

  • Religious Educaiton in Estonia - a tribute conference for Pille Valk Sept. 10th-12th, 2010 - more
  • School Culture(s) – Values – Identities - October 3-5, 2010 in Wels, Austria - more
  • IV/ICCS Conference, 29 June – 3 July, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic - more

to the web presence of the European Forum for Teachers of Religious Education. The Forum looks to support teachers, and teaching of, Religious Education in the pan-European context. We hope you enjoy the website and find useful information and resources here. To contact us use the button below. For more information about joining EFTRE see the membership page

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Seminars in Torhout, October 2008
Seminars in London, March 2009
Seminars in Helsinki, Nov 2009

The next meeting of the Executive [for Exec members only] will be in Vienna in November, 2010; where there will be more EFTRE seminars.

The next meeting of the Board [for Board members only] will be in Sevilla in March, 2011; where will we have more EFTRE seminars.
EFTRE subscribes to the Toledo Guiding Principles for teaching Religion and hopes that member organisations strive to teach religion, philosophy and ethics in this manner.
" ... regardless of the religious education system that exists in a particular country, children must receive tuition that takes account of religious and philosophical diversity as part of their intercultural education" Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education (Istanbul, 2007)
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