Besoin d'une correction à un dossier en Anglais

For a long time already, Religion remains important in the world. It is an essential part of life for many people and even the one who are atheistic still consider it important. 
Why does Religion remain so considerable?  To understand thatfirst let see how to define it.  According to the Oxford Dictionary, (mettre en ‘’ ‘’ la citation du dico) Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Belief is, according to it, a firmly held opinion or a religious conviction. Thus, it deals with the personal view of life of each of us. A thing links with the personal Identity. However, today’s world is composed of billions of people, and by consequent by people who have their own identity, their own convictions and beliefs. 
Religion is also essential in our societies because it conveys some values sharing with the modern expectations for people such as honesty, non-violence, tolerance and so on. It is the same values, in my mind, that schools try to convey to children in order to live together in the society. 
However, in France, it is often passed as a citizenship education than a Religious education, even if it shares the same basis. Religious education does not exist at schools in France (our country, tout dépend de quel point de vue tu te places !) because school, in addition of free and compulsory, is secular. But secular, here, means not to deal with it (je ne comprends pas le sens de cette phrase). It is a subject avoided: Teachers do not have the right to talk about their conviction and they have to avoid the subject in order for children to think by themselves; such as teachers, pupils are not allowed to show any religious symbols, such as a headscarf or a cross. In some schools, it is possible to participate in religious courses during the first year of secondary school but this subject always remains taboo.
I would like to become a primary teacher that is why the subject of religion at schools interested me. For this reason,  this report is about freedom of Religion at schools and also because, in my opinion, Freedom of Religion or Beliefs is linked with the right to freedom of thought and conscience, and the freedom to have a personal Identity.  (un peu lourd ! il faudrait couper en deux phrases)
In France, secularism enables to respect it. It is a part of the country and of History. In my mind, French History created who we are and why our country is like it is nowadays It is by consequent something we are attached to. Secularism is, for us, synonym of neutrality. A neutrality that enables to take no position and let’s people free concerning their religion. It is this secularism that makes freedom of Religion possible in our country. 
On the other hand, in a country such as England where secularism is not an entire part of the country and laws, how freedom of beliefs or religion can be respected? 
To answer that, this report will show the  differences between France and Great Britain(plutôt qu’England ou bien GB ?) and their education system regarding Freedom of Religion. At first, let’s see the place of Religion in both countries linked to historical elements. Then we will explain how schools work in England. At last, we will compare it to other Anglo-Saxon countries in order to see if they are the same or not. 

I) Place of Religion in France and in England (ou GB ? à vérifier): 
In this part, we can focus on the place of Religion in both countries. We will then speak about Religion in a general context.
For the both France and England, we will show the place of Religion in Media, since we are surrounded by it everyday and because I think that Media shows an overview of what happened in a country and what does people think. We will also see the percentage of believers, and their religious affiliation and laws dealing with Religion. 

a. France
            Nowadays, in France, Religion is an important subject. It is a daily topic on TV, Radio, newspapers for different reasons such as fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, tolerance and also because Religion is a part for believers of their Identity. (je ne comprends pas ce que tu souahites dire)

Even if France is considered as a secular country (is neutral in matters of religion ) since 1905 with the separation of church and state law, Religion remains something complicated to deal with. People do not necessarily understand other religions, and their different way of living. We can see that for example with the increase of anti-Semitic acts, the acts against Muslims after Charlie Hebdo attack, the last profanations in cemeteries or the last election. It is, today, an important issue in France. 
Obviously, the French Government condemns this kind of behaviour and this way of thinking is fortunately not fixed in all mentalities. France stays a multicultural country where people live together. We can show this fact with the different religious affiliations of people in the whole country. Indeed, it is difficult to exactly know the percentage of believers and their religious affiliation because French state do not take a census of it, Yet surveys exist such as the one made by CIA, Institut Sociovision, IFOP, Eurobameter and Pew Research Center. With those, we can see that there is a large extent of Religion, that Catholic Religion still is the largest community with the most believer. Nevertheless, there is also an important number of non-believers. 
This last fact/debate ? is something that happened everywhere else in the world. It can be explained by the development of sciences, the philosophical trend and the Jules Ferry laws of 1882 , which prevented Church to intervene in Education system.
            The last thing to say about Religion is that France is a secular country due to the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Article 10), the law of 1905 and the Constitution of 1958 (Article 1).  
As we said before, French people have to be neutral regarding Religion and there is also in this notion an idea of tolerance that enables to respect others, not to take position and let’s people free concerning their affiliation. For French people, it is secularism that made possible the respect of that freedom. 

b. Religion in England
            The same debate takes place in England. Religion is also a sensitive topic in the Media because of the fear of Islam following the different attacks but also with the General election approaching and the issues that are discussed related to it (immigration/race/religion). 
Contrary to France, Religion is something established in the British society. England is a monarchy, which means that it is headed by a Sovereign who is both the head of State and the Head of the Church of England. Moreover, 26 Church of England bishops sit in the House of Lords. According to the website churchofengland.org they play a full and active role in the life and work of the Upper House. We can by consequent say that from the outset, Religion has an important place in the life of the society. 
We can also deduce that Religion is something important for English people because it is a part of the country History such as Secularism for French. 
However, even if Anglicanism is well established in UK, there are not just Christian believers in the country. Indeed, with the census of 2011 realised by the ONS, we can see that England is also a multicultural country. But this multiculturalism is something established since a long time ago: Voltaire, and his French point of view, said about England in Letter on England written in 1733 “If there were only one religion in England, there would be danger of tyranny; if there were two, they would cut each other's throats; but there are thirty, and they live happily together in peace”. This depicts the diversity in religion back then. 
With the Census, we can also see there is, like in France, an increase of people who have no religion/atheistic ? With the different census, we can notice that Religion in Britain has suffered an immense general decline: increase of 6,4 million of non-believers since 2001. But it is a phenomenon we can notice in the whole developed world, for the same reason I evoked before.

By consequent, we can see that Religion is still something really important for people. It is an important issue in both countries, and even if there are less and less believers, there is still a large extend of them. However, both countries have different system: One is a Republic and the other a Monarchy, one is secular and the other has a State Religion. But they even though arrive to respect Freedom of Religion. In a different way it is true, but it is linked with their own history and laws. 
However, we can wonder now: how does each country respect Freedom of Religion in their education system?


II) Religion Education at schools : 
a. How does schools work in England (type of schools/laws..)
b. According to the National Curriculum (how teach it ? / Numbers of hours / goals 
Religious education)
c. What does people thinks about it (survey/Interview) 
d. Controversies

III) In others Anglo-Saxons countries : 
a. Countries where Religious Education is taught
b. Where it is not

J'ai regardé ton texte, tu as bien compris l'ensemble donc c'est un très très bon départ.

J'ai étudié plus d'un semestre le multiculturalisme britannique et j'ai longuement vu la place de la religion au sein de leur société.

Le société française n'accepte pas les différences alors que la société britannique est plus dans le style 'salad bowl' : ingredients miwed together but retain distinct identity.

France : secular state, universalist, assmilationist system (chacun fait ce qu'il veut dans la sphère privée mais pas le public

GB : multiculturalist model, differentialist system, (on accepte les differences dans la sphère publique et privée) la GB a depuis longtemps ouvert ses portes aux immigrants et ce fut la destination privilégié pour la communauté juive par exemple alors que les lois de Nuremberg venaient d'être mise en place par le Reich.

Si tu as l'occasion, il me semble que qques "reports" ont traité de la diversité à l'école tels que Education Reform Act 1988, McPherson report 1996...

Je pense que tu as fait tes recherches donc tu sais de quoi tu parles lorsque tu décris l'importance de la monarchie mais les différents systèmes politiques (Labour et Conservative) y ont également contribué.

Laisse moi un message si tu veux plus d'infos ou si tu souhaites me poser des questions en direct. (Fb, ....)