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Ten ways to use wisdom sayings in RE
Sing your own song
Everybody sang. The original musical instrument is the human voice.
Houses of wisdom: a creative RE approach to visiting places of worship
Claire Clinton reports on how Newham celebrates good practice in visiting places of worship: don’t just take them to church or mosque – instead make a song and dance about it.
Wisdom from young minds
We thought it might be fun to crowd-source some wisdom from pupils, so we asked on Facebook for wise comments and questions heard in recent RE lessons. Here are a few of our favourites. Why not make a ‘wall of...
From RE to Sophology – the search for, and study of, purported wisom
Imagine there was a subject of the school curriculum that helped children and young people to learn from the wisdom of the world’s religious and philosophical traditions so that they could (a) make the best of their...
Words of wisdom over time
Dr Bill Gent edits the Professional REflection section of REtoday. He is an associate fellow of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick. [email protected]
Why RE loses and why RE wins
Mick Waters is Professor of Education at Wolverhampton University. REtoday asked him about RE in the curriculum.
The wisdom of fairness
What is a sermon? Does it impart wisdom? Alan Bennett, playwright, gave this ‘Sermon’ at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, last year, calling for Christian fairness and the phasing out of fee-paying schools. The...
Wisdom or vision?
Welcome to this issue of REtoday. The theme is wisdom. Scriptures from many traditions can be seen as collections of wisdom passed down the centuries, and if RE has an offer to pupils beyond the merely academic, then...