166 Chapter 4 frequency. For DCU, this academic year meant the first year of application of the renewed curriculum, so the ground-laying part of thinking through the necessary citizenship formation had to be completed by then. The meetings held in 2022–2023 had the character of monitoring, finetuning and improving what was already set in motion. The same decision was taken for some followup meetings in 2023–2024. During the first year and a half of the TAR project (spring and fall 2021; spring 2022), there were 11 meetings, each lasting two hours with some informal time afterwards. During this period, one of the team members, a teacher of school 2, withdrew from the project because it did not match his expectations. After some time, he was replaced by another teacher from school 2, meaning that the outsider team had six members again. At the start of the academic year 2022–2023, there were some other changes. Over time, three members of the outsider team got jobs at other schools and were replaced by others. A representative of another Reformed Christian school was, at his request, allowed to join the outsider group, although the diversity present within his school was less intense than in schools 1 and 2. Discussion The relationship between outsiders and insiders during research on religion is much debated. An argument against the prominent position of insiders in research for a religious organisation is that they may be too immersed in the culture and beliefs of the organisation to be objective about their practice.
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