Language learning in/as religious education
Inspired by Dr Anastasia Badder’s research on Jewish supplementary education in Luxembourg and the interplay between literacy, citizenship, and community boundaries, CIP worked with Leo Baeck College to host a series of conversations at the intersection of language learning and religious education. The discussions demonstrated significant overlap between Muslim and Jewish experience, and illustrated the complexity of definitions vis-à-vis what makes language sacred.
A community of interest formed around the topic and continues to correspond informally. Dr Badder and Dr Jo-Ann Myers (Leo Baeck) are editing a collected volume on the topic.
Find out more
The events (as advertised)
- Webinar: Language learning in/as Religious Education (November 2022)
- Roundtable: Language learning in/as Religious Education (February 2023)
- Hybrid workshop: Language learning in/as Religious Education (March 2023)
Reports and publications
- Anastasia Badder. “‘I Just Want You to Get into the Flow of Reading’: Reframing Hebrew Proficiency as an Enactment of Liberal Jewishness.” Language & Communication 87 (2022), pp. 221—30, doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.003
- Report from the final workshop (March 2023).