Religious Education in Catholic Schools: Some recent findings

Abstract

A recent survey of sixteen‐year‐old pupils at Catholic schools was carried out in order to ascertain the views of pupils, in their final year of statutory schooling, regarding religious education and their experience of this subject in practice in their own schools. 1,642 pupils in the Catholic comprehensive schools in Wales participated in the study. The results of the investigation have raised some important issues as to the nature and effectiveness of religious education in the lives of the young people involved in the project.