Worldview: A Multidisciplinary Report

In response to the Commission on Religious Education report (CoRE, 2018), in February 2020 the Religious Education Council for England and Wales (which established the Commission on RE) commissioned an independent team of researchers to undertake a literature review on work engaging with the concept of “worldview”. The purpose was to summarise scholarly usages of the term “worldview” across different disciplines, and to present these findings in a short document. The aim of this literature review would be to offer scholars, policy-makers, and teachers the opportunity to understand how “worldview” has been constructed in academic disciplines that have traditionally informed RE.