Stephen G Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 751717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen G Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Worcester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4227-8804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Religious education and the interior life
Religious Education is often most comfortable when it can speak in public languages: curriculum frameworks, knowledge claims, assessment objectives, civic goods. Yet the articles gathered in this i
Localities and regions in religions and worldviews education
This Special Issue of the Journal of Beliefs and Values explores how religions and worldview education is (or has previously been) adapted in relation to locality or region rather than simply being
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 3)
This is the third special issue of Journal of Beliefs and Values dedicated to advance the field of cathedral studies. Cathedrals play a distinctive part in the natural landscape of England and Wale
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 2)
In part one of the special issue on cathedral studies, Francis and Parker (2023) drew attention to two related phenomena. The first phenomenon concerned the growing visibility of cathedrals within
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)
Cathedrals afford a fascinating part of the built environment. They also constitute a puzzling feature of the religious landscape. While attendance in Anglican churches continues to decline, attend
Religion and worldviews
Children’s subjectivity and agency in religious education
The purpose of religious education is often couched in terms of its religious or cultural benefits to society, but what do children and young people expect and/or need from it? How would religious
The Church of England and British Politics since 1900
Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership. During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the rol…
Missional Resistance
The television series Man in the High Castle is set in an alternate United States of America reality where Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II. This paper explores the saga's themes narratively, scripturally, and missionally, engaging with various cultural, religious, and mission studies. The resistance theme of The Man in the High Castle in particular provides a useful parallel to Christian mission that is surprisingly resonant both with scr…
Religious literacy
Religious literacy has emerged as a commonplace term (amongst other identified and multiple literacies, e.g. media literacy, financial literacy, coding literacy) in education over the past 20 years, deemed to be a necessary component for successful citizenship across contemporary societies. Specifically, religious literacy is said to entail ‘the ability to discern and analyse the fundamental intersections of religion and social/political/cultural…
The Church of England and the 1870 Elementary Education Act
Set against the background of mid-nineteenth century concerns about an erosion in the denomination’s standing and influence, this article highlights the differing responses to the matter from parties within the Church of England, which determined their degree of sympathy with proposals for an education act. Specifically, we point out that the debate over schooling between co-religionists centred upon rival understandings of religious education: ‘…
Activist dispositions for social justice in advantaged and disadvantaged contexts of schooling
This article advances current conceptions of teacher activism through an exploration of the social justice dispositions of teachers in advantaged and disadvantaged contexts of schooling. We interrogate the practices of teachers in a government school, with a high proportion of refugee students and students from low socio-economic backgrounds, in a high-fees, multi-campus independent school, and in a disadvantaged Systemic Catholic school to illus…
The Commission on Religious Education’s final report
The Illusion of Meritocracy and the Audacity of Elitism
Research in religion and education and the practitioner
Exploring the trajectory of personal, moral and spiritual values of 16- to 18-year-old students taking religious studies at A level in the UK
This study set out to explore the trajectory of personal, moral and spiritual values of students taking Religious Studies at A level in the UK. A sample of 150 students completed a battery of measures at the beginning of their period of A level study and again at the end. The data found no difference over this period of time in personal values (purpose in life, self-esteem, and empathy) in some moral values (concerning anti-social behaviour and c…
Special issue in honour of the founding editor of the Journal of Beliefs and Values , Rev'd Dr W.S. Campbell
It is with a sense of gratitude for his considerable academic contribution that this special issue is dedicated to the founding editor of the Journal of Beliefs and Values, Bill Campbell, who for 3
Metaphor as a methodological tool
This article investigates the social justice dispositions of teachers and principals in secondary schools as inferred from their metaphoric expressions. Drawing on a Bourdieuian account of disposition, our focus is the use of metaphor as a methodological tool to identify and reveal these otherwise latent forces within our data. Our analysis shows evidence of redistributive, recognitive and activist conceptions of social justice. We argue that the…
Faith in the public square
The professionalisation of non-denominational religious education in England
In response to contemporary concerns, and using neglected primary sources, this article explores the professionalisation of teachers of Religious Education (RI/RE) in non-denominational, state-maintained schools in England. It does so from the launch of Religion in Education (1934) and the Institute for Christian Education at Home and Abroad (ICE) (1935) to the founding of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (1973) and the Britis…
Who studies religion at Advanced level
This study was established to profile students currently studying religion at Advanced level (A level) in terms of their demography, motivation, experience and attitudes. Eight specific areas were identified for examination: their personal motivation to study religion at A level, the personal challenges posed by the subject, their personal experience of studying the subject, their growth in understanding stimulated by the subject, the impact of t…
Calculating student aspiration
This paper reports on a recent study of aspirations for higher education by secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds in regional Australia. At the same time, it goes in search of explanations that transcend a Bourdieuian account of aspirations as produced by and reproductive of cultural histories and dominance, given the apparent inadequacy of these accounts in redressing disadvantage. To this end the authors distinguish between h…
The future of Religious Education
No description available
Prospects and problems for Religious Education in England, 1967–1970
This article provides an historical case study of an abortive attempt to revise policy and legislation relating to Religious Education in English schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing upon published sources, including parliamentary debates, as well as previously unutilised national archival sources from the Department of Education and Science, it comments upon events which have hitherto been omitted from the historiography of Religio…
Mediatising childhood religion
As part of its stated mission to Christianise Britain, from its earliest years the BBC broadcast religious programmes intended for a child audience. Directed at sites domestic and educational, these broadcasts constituted a means of the mediatisation of religion for children. This paper explores the work of the pioneer children’s religious broadcaster John G. Williams, the nature and character of childhood religion and its nurture espoused by him…
The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender
Donna Eder, Stephen Parker, The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture, Sociology of Education, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 200-213
Activist dispositions for social justice in advantaged and disadvantaged contexts of schooling
This article advances current conceptions of teacher activism through an exploration of the social justice dispositions of teachers in advantaged and disadvantaged contexts of schooling. We interrogate the practices of teachers in a government school, with a high proportion of refugee students and students from low socio-economic backgrounds, in a high-fees, multi-campus independent school, and in a disadvantaged Systemic Catholic school to illus…
Metaphor as a methodological tool
This article investigates the social justice dispositions of teachers and principals in secondary schools as inferred from their metaphoric expressions. Drawing on a Bourdieuian account of disposition, our focus is the use of metaphor as a methodological tool to identify and reveal these otherwise latent forces within our data. Our analysis shows evidence of redistributive, recognitive and activist conceptions of social justice. We argue that the…
Mediatising childhood religion
As part of its stated mission to Christianise Britain, from its earliest years the BBC broadcast religious programmes intended for a child audience. Directed at sites domestic and educational, these broadcasts constituted a means of the mediatisation of religion for children. This paper explores the work of the pioneer children’s religious broadcaster John G. Williams, the nature and character of childhood religion and its nurture espoused by him…
The Effects of Aggregation on Estimated Import Price Elasticities
Donald Rousslang, Stephen Parker, The Effects of Aggregation on Estimated Import Price Elasticities: The Role of Imported Intermediate Inputs, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Aug., 1981), pp. 436-439
Cross-Price Elasticities of U.S. Import Demand
The efficiency with which coefficients in probit mod- els are estimated is improved by exploiting data on continuous ancillary variates. In this paper the resulting gains in efficiency are examined and illustrative calculations are provided. Extra precision is achieved at the cost of making an extra assumption but this assumption can be tested. It is shown that fully efficient maximum likelihood estimation of the probit model with a continuous an…
The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender
Donna Eder, Stephen Parker, The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture, Sociology of Education, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 200-213
School Talk
In the cafeteria and schoolyard, by the lockers and watiing for class, the identies of middle-school youth are reflected in their constant exchange of gossip, insults, and teasing. Donna Eder, Catherine Evans, and Stephen Parker spent three years in a midwestern middle school listening to what these eleven- to fourteen-year-olds had to say to each other. Their book provides an insightful look into the language and culture of today's adolescents. …
Datos de la lengua Inapari
Der heimliche Konig
A Case for Private Courts
Mutual Obligation? Regulating by Supervision and Surveillance in Australian Income Support P
Through an analysis of speeches by government ministers, documents and regulations, this article examines the Australian national government's surveillance of unemployed people through what is known as Activity Testing, and more specifically as Mutual Obligation. It seeks to merge the social policy analysis of Mutual Obligation with a surveillance perspective in order to delve deeper into the underlying nature of the policy and its implications f…
‘I'm the Slice of Pie that's Ostracised …’. Foucault's Technologies, and Personal Agency, in the Voice of Women who are Homeless, Adelaide, South Australia
In contrast to the international research (particularly in the United Kingdom and North America), much of the Australian literature regarding homelessness to date omits the perspective of people who are homeless. In contributing to the fledgling Australian literature in the field, the following article adopts a secondary approach to the data analysis of original research. When analysed, the voices of homeless women from an agency in Adelaide, Sou…
Addressing Water Policy in the New Administration
Theorising ‘sacred’ space in educational contexts
Sixth Form Colleges (along with the general Further Education sector) in England and Wales have of late begun to appoint new chaplains and to set aside space for quiet, prayer and reflection. This article explores this phenomenon as exhibited by three colleges in the English Midlands, utilising spatial theory and the sociology of ‘sacred’ spaces to analyse the features exhibited by them. Additionally, given the dearth in rationale for the existen…
Context, complexity and contestation
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Journal of Beliefs and Values, September 2011. Available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ or DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2011.600823
The Sonority Controversy
Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has …
Islam and education
by Lynn Revell, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books, 2012, xi + 135 pp., £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-85856-489-0 This is a timely study, which recognises the importance, not only of religious educa
Clifton College
Towards international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious Education
This article calls for international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious Education (RE). To this end, it provides a rationale for focusing upon the concept of professionalisation and a theoretical justification for international comparative research, particularly identifying its significance in terms of the development of RE in England and Germany. The article outlines a methodology for exploring the concepts of professio…
Navigating student transition in higher education
Student transition into higher education (HE) has increased in importance in recent times, with the growing trend in OECD nations towards universal HE provision and the concomitant widening of participation to include previously under-represented groups. However, 'transition' as a concept has remained largely uncontested and taken for granted, particularly by practitioners but also by many researchers. Based on an analysis of recent research in t…
Navigating change
Student transition into higher education has increased in importance in recent times, with the growing trend in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations towards universal higher education provision and the concomitant widening of participation to include previously under-represented groups. However, ‘transition’ as a concept is largely employed uncritically in the field. In making these transition assumptions explicit, this a…
Calculating student aspiration
This paper reports on a recent study of aspirations for higher education by secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds in regional Australia. At the same time, it goes in search of explanations that transcend a Bourdieuian account of aspirations as produced by and reproductive of cultural histories and dominance, given the apparent inadequacy of these accounts in redressing disadvantage. To this end the authors distinguish between h…
The future of Religious Education
No description available
Prospects and problems for Religious Education in England, 1967–1970
This article provides an historical case study of an abortive attempt to revise policy and legislation relating to Religious Education in English schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing upon published sources, including parliamentary debates, as well as previously unutilised national archival sources from the Department of Education and Science, it comments upon events which have hitherto been omitted from the historiography of Religio…
Mediatising childhood religion
As part of its stated mission to Christianise Britain, from its earliest years the BBC broadcast religious programmes intended for a child audience. Directed at sites domestic and educational, these broadcasts constituted a means of the mediatisation of religion for children. This paper explores the work of the pioneer children’s religious broadcaster John G. Williams, the nature and character of childhood religion and its nurture espoused by him…
Faith in the public square
The professionalisation of non-denominational religious education in England
In response to contemporary concerns, and using neglected primary sources, this article explores the professionalisation of teachers of Religious Education (RI/RE) in non-denominational, state-maintained schools in England. It does so from the launch of Religion in Education (1934) and the Institute for Christian Education at Home and Abroad (ICE) (1935) to the founding of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (1973) and the Britis…
Who studies religion at Advanced level
This study was established to profile students currently studying religion at Advanced level (A level) in terms of their demography, motivation, experience and attitudes. Eight specific areas were identified for examination: their personal motivation to study religion at A level, the personal challenges posed by the subject, their personal experience of studying the subject, their growth in understanding stimulated by the subject, the impact of t…
Sociology (31 works) · Political science (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Religious Education and Schools (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (10 works) · Social science (9 works)