Bryce Hartshorn
Senior Lecturer in Education (Religious and Moral Education)
Programme Leader, PGDE (Primary)
Academic and Professional Qualification
MA, BD, MEd
Teaching Career
1978-82 Religious Education and English, Cumbernauld High School
1982-85 Assistant Principal Teacher, Religious Education, Crookston Castle Secondary School, Glasgow
1985-89 Principal Teacher, Religious Education, Abronhill High School, Cumbernauld
Current Teaching and Management Commitments in the School of Education
Senior Lecturer in Religious and Moral Education
Programme Leader, Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary)
Research and Scholarly Interests
1988 Community Action: Resources for Use with Students on Placement and in the Classroom.. Pergamon Press
1994 RME 5-14: Development of Personal Search (with Mark Chater) for Dumfries & Galloway Regional Council
1996 Religious Observance in the Primary Sector (with Tony Luby) for Strathclyde Regional Council
2002 Thematic Approaches to Religious Education in the Early Years’, Educare Educere, Ano VII-No12, pp.55-63.
2002 Review of ‘A Gift to the Child’ (1991), Educare Educere, Ano VII-No12, pp.149-153
2002 ‘Values in Islam: Their Commonalty with European Values, Traditional and Modern’, Intercultural Matters: Islam and European Education, pp. 33-49
2003 ‘The Portrayal of Islam in Texts’, Intercultural Matters: Islam and European Education, pp.17-26
2004 Growing Together in Europe: a guide for delivering effective Comenius inservice courses (with Livingstone, K. et al.)
2005 Widening Access to the Teaching Profession (with Hextall, I. et. al.). GTC Scotland Research Publication No.1
2006 Widening access to the teaching profession: perspectives from Scotland (with Menter, I et. al.) European Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 271-285
2008 Primary Religious and Moral Education, Scottish Education (3rd edition), Bryce, T and Humes, W.
Membership of National Bodies and Professional Organisations
1978-present Member of the Association of Teachers of RE in Scotland
1978-present Member of the General Teaching Council Scotland
2000-2007 Member of the Higher Education Academy
2007-present Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2001-present Scottish Baptist College Committee and Learning and Teaching Committee
2001-present Religious Education Movement council member
European Projects
1998 Socrates ICP Staff Mobility programme exchange to Haslev Seminarium, Denmark
1998-2002 Comenius 3.2 Intercultural Project : Muslims in Europe
2002-2005 Socrates (Accompanying Measures) Project, co-authoring ‘Survival Guide for Co-ordinators, Leaders and Trainers Delivering Comenius In-Service Courses’
2007 Visit to Faculty of Theology, University of Latvia, to promote Religious Education under the auspices of REMS