Articles about Buddhism
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.’
TEACHING BUDDHIST THOUGHT TO YEAR 9 GIRLS TO STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE
This article is for paying subscribers A new approach to Buddhist terminology
Buddhism is a tricky religion to teach, for many reasons. One of these is the prevalence of terms and concepts that are alien to English-speaking Westerners and are often provided in multiple different spellings and...
This article is for paying subscribers Charting paths for RE
Wendy Dossett is best known to teachers for leading the University of Chester’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies A-level webinar series. She has been an A-level Examiner, Secretary of the Shap Working...
This article is for paying subscribers Pots of Gold
BBC TEACH has a rich suite of resources for primary schools that is curated to meet the needs of teachers across the school calendar, says its Executive Producer Alex Harris.
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A NEW FREE FILM RESOURCE FOR RE TEACHERS
This article is for paying subscribers REAL PEOPLE REAL OPINIONS: Real Voices
We asked people questions to get them thinking about their perspectives on values and ethics. You might want to use these personal, real-life reflections in your RE lessons, or perhaps invite pupils to respond to the...
This article is for paying subscribers What’s worth celebrating?
We asked members of different faith and belief communities a set of questions about their own lives of celebration. Here Buddhist, Bahá’í, Christian, Sikh and Muslim respondents explain what celebration means for...
This article is for paying subscribers A different look at Buddhism
Compiled by Dr Rachael Jackson-Royal, HoD of RE and a member of the NATRE Executive. She can be co tacted at:
Religion and RE: yesterday and tomorrow
RE is a subject with a past and a future, linked in all kinds of ways. Our communities press our governments across the UK to change the subject to be better suited to learning in the coming decade.
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
Eleven worldview questions: a way of opening up the concept of worldviews for your pupils
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
This term’s theme of pilgrimage and the journey of life led us to invite people from different communities to answer a set of questions from the perspective of their religion or worldview. The same seven questions...
This article is for paying subscribers Researching the religions and worldviews in RE: perspectives from inside a faith/worldview
Each issue of REtoday includes a set of pages from different writers to help RE teachers understand insider views. This issue is about RE and research, and we invited responses to the questions below from...
This article is for paying subscribers Buddhism and tolerance
Bhante Tejwant serves as a Buddhist representative on Wolverhampton SACRE. He is a contributor to the NATRE anti-racist RE resource project, and here he gives a perspective from the way of the Buddha on tolerance. Use...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We asked people from inside different faiths to write an article about their identity from these eight questions. Consider your own answers to the questions – jot down some notes. Then read the examples on the next...
This article is for paying subscribers When Greta Thunberg met Pope Francis
This activity is simple, flexible and potentially profound. A part of good RE around green issues is to consider whether religions have a part to play in climate justice and responding to the climate crisis, and to...
This article is for paying subscribers Sacred landscapes and philosophical gardens: RE as a response to climate change
The world is dealing with two huge crises at the moment. We have the immediate crisis caused by Covid-19 and the continuing ecological crisis caused by greenhouse gases, and we know that young people have increasingly...
This article is for paying subscribers Green religions? Perspectives from world faiths and viewpoints for your students
This issue of REtoday focuses on themes around green issues, environmentalism and climate justice. Our religions and worldviews are rich in exploring these issues and the relation of humanity to the natural world. We...
This article is for paying subscribers REVIEW: Not About Being Good: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Ethics
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This article is for paying subscribers A landscape of distinct practices: teaching a deeper Buddhism
How does a teacher engage with a religious tradition so that it can be presented in an engaging manner yet with accuracy and authenticity? Here, Rae Hancock talks through some of the issues that she has had to work...