Confessional Religious Education? Research Into Teachers as ‘Committed Witnesses’ in Flemish Catholic Religious Education.

The renewed Flemish curriculum for Catholic secondary religious education (RE) aims to give pupils the opportunity to clarify and articulate their own worldview in dialogue with the plural world and the Christian faith. The teacher has a crucial role to play in this. He/she is expected be a 'witness' who teaches from a lived Christian attitude, a specialist with expert knowledge on religions, and a moderator who can promote dialogue. With the growing pluralisation and detraditionalisation of soc