Articles about RE
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 What is Ofsted saying about RE in England – and what can we learn from it?
As we write this, teachers are ‘working their socks off’ providing home learning in various forms for pupils as well as looking after disadvantaged pupils and pupils with key-worker parents. It has hardly been a...
This article is for paying subscribers Is the Commission on RE a game-changer?
Trevor Cooling, Chair of the RE Council, predicts that the Commission on RE (CoRE) report will change the RE game in a worldviews direction for good.
This article is for paying subscribers Building the Future of Primary Religious Education
There are continuing concerns about the time and focus given to the initial training of primary teachers in RE across all training routes (Ofsted 2013; APPG/REC 2013; CoRE 2018; NATRE 2018).
This article is for paying subscribers Taking the problems seriously
I never enjoyed teaching the ‘environment’ bit of the GCSE course. It was just so bland, so uncontroversial, so anodyne. It was one of the most glaring examples of how the previous GCSE was so undemanding, and the...
This article is for paying subscribers New free, downloadable digital curriculum subject directory brought to you by the CfSA
RE Today/NATRE have played a key part in the development and production of the first CfSA Directory – a fabulous ‘flippin book’, it is free to flick through, download and save. Nearly every subject is listed,...
This article is for paying subscribers Geneticist and physician Francis Collins wins £1.1 million from the Templeton Prize
Francis Collins is Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and led the Human Genome Project to its successful completion in 2003. Throughout his career he has advocated for the integration of faith and...
This article is for paying subscribers Increase in teachers training to teach RE: how can you help?
Forty per cent of new PGCE students have become RE teachers after graduating in other humanities subjects such as History, Philosophy or Sociology. This increase boosts the number of new RE teacher trainees to its...
This article is for paying subscribers Book review: Timothy Howles, Responding Faithfully to the Environmental Crisis: Christianity in the Time of the Anthropocene
This timely Grove publication explores how faith and prayer relate to social, cultural and political action in light of the climate emergency. Howles’ aim is to add the voice of Christian ethics to the discourse...
This article is for paying subscribers Obituary: Dr Bill Gent
With great sadness and affectionate memories, we share the news that Dr Bill Gent, Redbridge’s brilliant and much-loved RE adviser and a long-time supporter of RE Today and editor of our magazines REsource and...
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Ah, now I see!’ Why the metaphors we use for ‘understanding’ in RE matter
In this article Karen Walshe shares with us the fruits of her recent research into the use of metaphors when people talk of understanding. This has significant importance for RE as much of the subject’s literature...
This article is for paying subscribers A pedagogy of belonging for RE
In this reflective piece David Aldridge poses some very interesting questions and possibilities regarding what really counts as teachers’ subject knowledge within the context of understanding something about the...
This article is for paying subscribers Research update
This research update is particularly useful for secondary school teachers as it focuses on resources for the A level and GCSE that are based on current research. The first article discusses the unique contributions...
This article is for paying subscribers Reviews
As the Keane song goes: ‘Everybody’s changing ...’ Everything changes. At school in the 1960s I studied Scripture. The sign on the door of the room in Goldsmith’s College where I learned about Contemporary...
This article is for paying subscribers Commonplace reflections: The proof is in the meaning
For generations, particular people – for a variety of reasons – have kept notebooks in which they write and record poems, thoughts, proverbs and sayings, etc. Anything, in fact, that takes their fancy. Some of...