Articles about Critical Thinking
For the staffroom
This article is for paying subscribers Education in Practice: A Teacher’s Guide for the Secondary Classroom’
What is Critical RE? Critical RE (CRE) enables students to tussle with questions regarding the truth about ultimate reality and its impact on how we should live our lives. It is based in the philosophy of Critical...
Research
This article is for paying subscribers Research update – Dialogic RE: developing cumulative talk and exploratory talk
Compiled by Doctor Rachael Jackson-Royal, Head of RE at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, and a member of the NATRE Executive. Towards the end of a 30-year career I stumbled across, almost literally, an...
Events and resources 7-11
Resources
Edited by Jane Brooke What is Humanism? How Do You Live Without a God? And Other Big Questions for Kids Age range: 7–11s Authors: Michael Rosen and Annemarie Young (Wayland, 2015), 48pp, hb, £13.99,ISBN...
For the classroom 14-19
Thinking harder with senior students: six strong strategies
Helen Norris wanted her A level classes to be more thoughtful. Here are ten of her ideas that worked well. Relevant to other age groups too, we think. Engaging 16–19s with theology, philosophy and ethics is difficult...
For the classroom 5-11
This article is for paying subscribers Developing critical thinking in primary RE
Naomi Anstice is the assistant head teacher at Frodsham Manor House Primary School in Cheshire, and is a member of the NATRE Executive. Her school is a Global Learning Expert Centre. She has undertaken a term-long...
For the classroom 11-16
What is Religion?
Do you ever get the sense that your students come to school to watch you work? Jane Halsall at Southend High School for Boys wants to shift the responsibility of critical thinking from her to her students’...