This article is for paying subscribers I cannot remember a time when RE teachers were not interested in teaching about values and ethics. Early in my RE career, I was encouraged to think that teaching Bible stories would lead to my pupils absorbing ethical...
This article is for paying subscribers 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 Following the publication in 2018 of the final report of the Commission on RE (CoRE), there has been a gradual change of focus in thinking about the nature and purpose of RE. Teachers are inevitably preoccupied with...
This article is for paying subscribers The promotion of a conversation about a worldview approach to RE as outlined in the new vision recommended by the Commission on RE, is at the heart of the REC’s current work. In one sense this is a radical new...
This article is for paying subscribers In the first of two articles reflecting on how the National
Entitlement included in the Commission on RE Final
Report might be implemented, Trevor Cooling gives
us an insightful analysis that draws...
This article is for paying subscribers 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 Trevor Cooling is Professor of Christian Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and Chair of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales. This article is written in a personal capacity.
This article is for paying subscribers Some of the most poignant pieces of writing that we have carried in this journal (and its predecessor, REsource) have been the result of inviting individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the field to...
