Articles about RE
This article is for paying subscribers Sharing space goes to the movies: new dialogic possibilities at a ‘race and education’ film club
Rachael Jackson-Royal, who teaches in Birmingham, and Janet Orchard of the University of Bristol wanted to find new ways to explore issues about race and equalities for both researchers and teachers of RE. Here is...
This article is for paying subscribers Why are humans religious?
Luke Pollard reflects on the reasons for religion.
This article is for paying subscribers Worldviews: it starts with people
"It seems that everyone is talking about worldviews and it feels like there is real curriculum change in the air, leading to important questions being raised. How can we define ‘worldviews’? Will a religion and...
This article is for paying subscribers The role of RE in mitigating xenophobia: an educational approach
"Chris May is Head of Humanities at Park Community School in Havant, Hampshire."
This article is for paying subscribers Teaching about Humanism and non-religiou worldviews
Luke Donnellan is the Director of Understanding Humanism at Humanists UK, where he is responsible for the development of education resources on Humanism and the provision of teacher training to support subject...
This article is for paying subscribers Possibilities and challenges: reflections on current issues in Religion and Worldviews classrooms
In this edition we re-visit our more regular format for Professional REflection, following our special issue on the NATRE Curriculum Symposium (Autumn 2022, Vol. 40:1).
This article is for paying subscribers Theology at university? Eight ways to connect your senior students to university study
In the last academic year one of my Year 12 pupils decided to take it upon herself to enter the John Locke Institute philosophy essay competition. To my utter delight she was chosen to attend the prizegiving weekend...
This article is for paying subscribers Cracking 16–19 RE
Karen Steele, who teaches in Warwickshire, wanted to make a good offer of core RE to her 16-19s.
This article is for paying subscribers Weddings for 4-year-olds: from Cana in Galilee to Manchester’s Moss Side
How can you truly give children the opportunity to experience how they would feel when a miracle happened? How can you take a miracle from the Bible and make it authentic for life today in the twenty-first...
This article is for paying subscribers Good learning from our yesterdays: religion and history
This crowdsourced article poses the question: what does great RE look like on the frontier with history? There are all kinds of good reasons to link RE and history, and in some ways RE needs the disciplines of history...
This article is for paying subscribers Ask the teachers about RE in your school
Julie Childs teaches RE in Lincolnshire and Lat Blaylock is Editor of REtoday. They encourage all primary subject leaders to audit staff subject knowledge and confidence every couple of years. Here are three samples...
This article is for paying subscribers ‘All the children were engaged and excited by the climate change topics in RE’: the RE:Connect RE and Climate Crisis Teacher Fellowship Programme
Zoe Higgins wants RE to tackle climate issues more than ever before.
Here is how it can.
This article is for paying subscribers Floor books for RE: record, share, evaluate
Here we present some examples of good uses of floor books in 4–7 RE. Typical features of a floor book for RE are that it is a large (eg A2 or A1) book in which samples of pupil responses to RE tasks are collected...
This article is for paying subscribers Reality and other stories: the greatest stories, movies and plotlines – it’s all RE
Peter Dray and Matthew Lillicrap explain their new book Reality and Other Stories (IVP 2022), which argues that the story of God in the Bible is well explained in the light of Christopher Booker’s theory of ‘seven...
This article is for paying subscribers Nostalgia and prophecy? RE yesterday and tomorrow
We asked some of RE’s big thinkers to share their thoughts about what RE should carry forward from its recent history and what we should be looking for in the future of the subject. The Editor was strict about...
This article is for paying subscribers Teachers as Curriculum Developers
I remember the interview that landed me my first teaching job. It was in two parts, and for one of them I was given a flip chart and 30 minutes and expected to plan a term’s work on the topic of food. I remember...
This article is for paying subscribers Academic rigour and personal transformation through reflection.
This research update discusses two current projects of interest to teachers. ‘After Religious Education’, led by Dr David Lewin, focuses on some of the most significant issues currently facing the subject. In its...
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Teachers of RE are like Hollywood producers – a bit’
Curriculum developers and teachers are producers. Maybe not of the Hollywood variety, but they design, curate and produce educational experiences for their students. What students take from these productions is not...
This article is for paying subscribers NATRE curriculum symposium: teacher reflections
Extending the theme of reflective professional dialogue, we introduce the practice of ‘collective writing’ to the pages of Professional REflection. This is an established practice used in the philosophy of...
This article is for paying subscribers A dialogue reflecting on the symposium
What is the value of public dialogue? Do we and our pupils gain anything from it? Engaging in dialogue with others can help us to create and recreate ourselves; it keeps our minds open to other possibilities. Dialogue...