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bryan reed (1905-1991) and informal religious education
 Involved
in work along the Clubland model. Then a lecturer at Westhill
College directed the influential study of young people in Birmingham -
Eighty Thousand Adolescents (1950). Argued the youth service
should provide experience of democratic living, and
contribute to the strengthening and enrichment of home life.
Argued much religious education had to be
‘occasional, spontaneous and opportunist’. 'Young people
are assailed by the claims of many competing ideologies', he wrote, 'leaders
need to know more than they do, both of Christian doctrine and of the
possibilities of informal religious education'.
Convinced the essential requirements for successful
religious education are Christian leadership, and the setting of a Christian
community.
Became general secretary of the Methodist Youth Department
(formed in 1943). Heavily involved in MAYC (formed in 1945) in the 1950s
and 1960s.
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