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Religious Education as a Dialogue with Difference addresses current issues over the study of religion in publicly maintained schools. Are liberal, inclusive approaches to the study of religion suited to the aims of education in a democracy? Do liberal democratic aims offer the right framework for the study of religion? By presenting research on English secondary school pupils' motivation in religious education, this volume argues that religious education is best understood as a democratic dialogue with difference. The book offers empirical evidence for this claim, and it demonstrates how learners gain in religious literacy, both through the exercise of democratic citizenship in the classroom and towards the goal of life-long democratic citizenship.

Religious education --- Religions --- Citizenship --- Democracy and education --- Religion in the public schools

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"This volume explores numerous themes (including the influence of ethnography on religious education research and pedagogy, the interpretive approach to religious education, the relationship between research and classroom practice in religious education), providing a critique of contemporary religious education and exploring the implications of this critique for initial and continuing teacher education"--

Religion --- Study and teaching --- Research --- 268.22 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- 268.22 Geloofsopvoeding op school--(algemeen) --- Geloofsopvoeding op school--(algemeen) --- Religion - Study and teaching - Great Britain - Case studies. --- Religion - Study and teaching - Cross-cultural studies. --- Religion - Research - Great Britain - Case studies. --- Religion - Research - Cross-cultural studies.

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"This text is concerned with magnetic nanoparticles and granular thin films which form the basis of all advanced magnetics technology excluding permanent magnets and soft materials for inductors and transformers. The first part of the text is concerned with fundamental concepts. Thereafter chapters are presented on magnetic domains including basic principles but then restricted to domains in granular thin films and single domain particles including coherent and incoherent reversal and the effects of exchange coupling. Particular emphasis is then placed on thermal activation effects and the role of a particle or grain size distribution and the measurement techniques by which the effects of thermal activation can be measured. This part concludes with a detailed discussion of the phenomenon of exchange bias and magneto-resistance in multilayers. Part two includes the description of three dominant forms of technology using particulate and granular magnetic materials. The first of these is ferrofluids including engineering applications in seals and loudspeakers but then looking at the rapidly developing field of biomedical applications in general and in particular the phenomenon of magnetic hyperthermia. The second major application is the field of magnetic recording which is addressed including tape recording and heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). Finally the development and implementation of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is described including the commercialisation of MRAM using bits oriented perpendicular to the plane and switched by spin transfer torque (STT) and read via magneto-resistance using tunnelling magneto resistance (TMR). Finally a brief outlook of future potential developments is described."--