The Promotion of Teaching on the Interaction between Science and Religion in Common Awards

Chris Southgate, SWMTC

Project Description:

This project is designed to analyse why the Common Awards provision contains so little opportunity to explore the science-religion debate, to provide resources for such exploration, and to plan the development of further collections of resources.

Objectives:

1.    to understand why there has been so little demand from TEIs for a more focussed engagement with the science-religion debate, and identify what would attract the interest of TEIs;

2.    to develop outlines of modules at Level 5;

3.    as the major piece of work of the project, to develop short blocks of resource for use not only in these modules, but as elements in a range of other modules within CA;

4.    to apply for further funding to collate resources from different sources and make them available to a range of learning communities.

Results:

• the creation of two new Common Awards modules: TMM2721 Issues in Science and Religion and TMM2661 Science, Ecology and Theology;
• the creation of various teaching resources which will be available on the Common Awards Moodle Hub; and
• an academic article: Christopher Southgate, “Science and Religion in the United Kingdom: A Personal View on the Contemporary Scene” in Zygon 51.2 (2016), 361–86