One registered and intrigued researcher

Officially registered as a research student

Yesterday I braved the English cold, took the London tube, and found my way to the Institute of Education to register, get an ID, and have my computer accounts for the internet and library access all set up. I was able to find some of the journals I couldn’t access from Singapore–and this morning I finished reading one article written by Michael Hand with a deceptively simple title, “Religious Education.”

Really, really interesting! At first blush, it seems quite irrelevant to my research and to our work back home since it talks about the different justifications of Religious Education in the U.K. Of course the situation in the U.K. is so different from ours in Manila–most especially in Catholic schools run by religious congregations. Whereas the UK RE has moved to what is called the phenomenological approach which tackles different world religions, ours has remained quite confessional in nature and its purpose socialization into Catholic beliefs and practices still.

Sleeping with other people´s epistemologies

Just got back to Madrid by train from Sevilla yesterday.  I fly to London later today for my research at IoE and my meeting with my supervisor.

Funny thing:  I woke up with a start yesterday due to some nightmare about my survey instruments, the details of which I had forgotten as soon as I opened my eyes.  It´s probably my first non-narrative, cerebral nightmare–or dream!  There was no story (at least, none that I can recall); only an insight or a question about the first section of my survey instrument concerning epistemological understandings across judgment domains.