Articles by Dave Francis

Events and resources

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Events: What’s going on in the RE community

RE-Definitions boost: more concepts and worldviews added to the app With well in excess of 25,000 logins since its launch just a year ago, the RE-Definitions app is already proving very popular with teachers and...

Published in: Volume 36, Number 2

For the classroom 4-11

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Broadening the mind: using the Solarity philosophy and religion club resource to spark deeper RE learning

Dave Francis has edited a website of new resources to help teachers run out-of-school-hours sessions in religion and philosophy. Having produced 40 sessions for secondary-age students, he has now assembled more than...

Published in: Volume 36, Number 3

For the staffroom

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Knowledge, cleverness and wisdom: new models for assessing pupils’ progress in RE

Benjamin Hoff (author of The Tao of Pooh, 1982) has a warning that I think applies to all those involved in planning any educational enterprise: ‘Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes;...

Published in: Volume 34, Number 1
Tagged: Knowledge, cleverness

Opinion

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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...

Published in: Volume 32, Number 2