Articles about RE
This article is for paying subscribers MAPPING RE ACROSS TRANSITION
As a Head of Department in a large secondary school, transition is something that has always vexed me. To give some context, my school is in a multi-academy trust (MAT), although this is still ar relatively new...
This article is for paying subscribers What I wish I knew
Stepping into the classroom is still e singularly most terrifying and most empowering thing I have done. The empowering part, however, came quite a while later on! Teaching was not my first career, and I began...
This article is for paying subscribers UNVEILING CONNECTIONS
In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of primary education and curriculum design, the integration of various sciplines enhances the depth and breadth of student learning. And this is no different when approaching RE....
This article is for paying subscribers BEYOND the plate
Exploring the ethical dimensions of veganism offers a profound link to RE, where moral reasoning and the study of values are paramount.
This article is for paying subscribers “The problem with RE …IS THAT IT ISN’T RE!
Like many atheists I would be 100 percent in favour of RE if it restricted itself to what it says on the tin: education about religion.
This article is for paying subscribers A TRANSATLANTIC ADVENTURE in moral education
Saima reflects on her experiences at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education in Texas in October 2023.
This article is for paying subscribers North Stars
CELEBRITY PILGRIMS explore faith, spirituality and life’s big questions on their journey through North Wales
This article is for paying subscribers What does RE mean to you?
In this issue of REToday, we have explored the messiness of religions and worldviews. What an oversight it would be not to explore the messiness of RE itself, a subject whose aims, purposes, methods and very existence...
This article is for paying subscribers Wondering in Uzbekistan
John Holroyd taught RE in schools in and around London for 30 years before lecturing at the London School of Philosophy and writing his book Judging Religion: A Dialogue for Our Time.
This article is for paying subscribers 30 years of NASACRE: SACREs for the future
NASACRE’s Pearl Anniversary Conference, with more than 100 delegates from over 60 SACREs across the country, focused on some of the treasures of the past and looked forward to the golden nuggets of the future.
This article is for paying subscribers Leading and inspiring Religion and Worldviews Education: an inspiring summer conference
Alastair Ross is director of Pennine Learning and is RE adviser to several areas in the north of England. He was a secondary RE head of department.
This article is for paying subscribers Ofsted appoints new Acting Subject Lead for RE
Hazel Henson HMI was appointed as Acting Subject Lead for RE in March 2023. In this interview, she talks to Deborah Weston about the role, her career journey and her love of RE.
This article is for paying subscribers Katie Freeman writes from the NATRE Chair
May I start by saying, ‘Welcome back.’ I hope that you all had a restful summer break with family and friends and are now ready for the start of the new school year. I love the beginning of the autumn term; there...
This article is for paying subscribers RE as poetry
How often do you get that magical, prickles-up-the-back-of-your-neck feeling when attending a training day? I have been to good training, useful training, so-so training, ‘I’m falling asleep’ training,...
This article is for paying subscribers Knowledge, suspicion and faith
"Earlier this year, I went to Professor Anthony Thiselton’s funeral. From 1978, he taught me about hermeneutics, philosophy and biblical study, and I was so fortunate to know a man of such genius in these...
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The current discussions about the nature of ‘worldviews’ in relation to the RE curriculum will, I suspect, continue for a long time. Indeed, it is a very interesting and encouraging conversation, suggesting that...
This article is for paying subscribers Thinking about substantive knowledge in two primary school contexts
Knowledge’, ‘research’ and ‘substantive’ are just three of the many ‘Tier 3’ words on the lips of those within the RE/religion and worldviews community currently. Here, two educators, both working in the...
This article is for paying subscribers Promoting epistemic literacy: knowledge and the case for tackling epistemic injustice as an aim for RE
"Jo Fraser-Pearce is Associate Professor (Teaching) at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London. Jo has ten years’ experience teaching RE in maintained secondary schools in and around...
This article is for paying subscribers What do we really mean by ‘personal knowledge’?
As teachers and researchers, we have explored the development of a religion and worldviews approach in theory and in practice. Here we bring together our shared reflections on the idea of ‘personal knowledge’ and...
This article is for paying subscribers What next for RE? Some thoughts from After Religious Education
"Is RE really so terrible? A ‘tepid version of cultural studies where religion is transformed into a calendar of funny festivals, lighting candles and distinctive headgear … [taught by] teachers from other...