Developing early career teachers’ engagement with science and religion through exploring sustainability issues in a learning community
Summary: In this project, we will develop a learning community in which 10 early career teachers (thereafter ECTs) will co-create resources for teaching about science and religion in relation to issues of sustainability. Participants will be recruited from Canterbury Christ Church University’s home and international PGCE programmes (based in Karachi, Pakistan). The community will participate in 3 workshops led by research fellows from the Learning about Science and Religion (LASAR) Centre. In the workshops, ECTs will engage with research around science, religion and sustainability, co-create lesson plans and a teacher guide, then deliver and evaluate their lessons in primary and secondary schools. The aim of the project is to (i) evaluate the effectiveness of the learning community for developing ECTs’ understanding of, and confidence in exploring, science and religion in relation to issues of sustainability, (ii) explore ECTs’ perceptions of the value of the learning community and (iii) explore ECTs’