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The role of occupational standards in workplace religious literacy

journal contribution
posted on 2020-07-02, 00:00 authored by Beth CrispBeth Crisp, Adam Dinham
This paper explores the UK National Occupational Standards to identify the breadth of occupations for which it has been determined that workers need some degree of religious literacy. A total of 465 standards documents which mention religion and beliefs relating to a diverse range of occupations were retrieved, of which 13 had a primary focus on religion and beliefs. Approximately 60 percent of these standards noted the need for knowledge about religion and beliefs, though only a quarter of these specified actual performance criteria. With some exceptions, most of the standards were vague as to what is meant by religion and its proxies, with very few attempts to define their terms. A lack of specificity renders the inclusion of references to religion largely tokenistic rather than reflecting a measure of religious literacy which could be practically operationalised.

History

Journal

Journal of beliefs & values: studies in religion & education

Volume

41

Pagination

358-370

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

1361-7672

eISSN

1469-9362

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2019, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Issue

3

Publisher

Taylor & Francis