Articles about history

For the classroom 11-16
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Good learning from our yesterdays: religion and history 

This crowdsourced article poses the question: what does great RE look like on the frontier with history? There are all kinds of good reasons to link RE and history, and in some ways RE needs the disciplines of history...

Events and resources
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The Deliberative Classroom – ACT (Association for Citizenship Teaching)

www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/resource/deliberative-classroom-religious-freedom ACT has recently published the first of its eight ‘Deliberative Classroom’ themes, Religious Freedom, as part of a project supported by...
For the classroom 11-16
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Working with history in RE

Many of my students have misconceptions about Muslims coming to the UK to force their faith on others. I have never researched into the roots of Muslim communities in the UK, so I decided to find out how Islam came to...
Reviews
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Reviews

Three significant books are reviewed in this edition. Julia Diamond-Conway has explored the elusive nature of religious literacy in her review of Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice, edited by Dinham and Francis,...
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Is it possible to do justice to a subject as diverse as the history of religion in fewer than 250 pages? Can it really be more than the ‘Cook’s Tour’ of religions that good religious educators aim to avoid? Who...

For the classroom 7-16
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‘Here I stand. I can do nothing else.’

REtoday Editor Lat Blaylock suggests that Martin Luther’s anniversary might prompt reflection in RE classrooms. Teachers are invited to send in pupils’ work on this theme. Pupils are invited to express their...
Events and resources
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The seventh-century Trumpington Cross displayed in Cambridge

A 1,300-year-old gold cross found buried with the body of an Anglo-Saxon teenager in Trumpington Meadows, Cambridgeshire, is to go on display in Cambridge. The Trumpington Cross is made of gold and garnets and was found...
Theory and practice
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State of the nation?

In writing this article, I wanted to try to sum up my – certainly personal – perspective on the recent history of RE in England. It is not always easy for teachers working in classrooms to observe and integrate...

Opinion
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Talking to children about what is most important

Professor Robert Winston gave the keynote speech at the Board of Deputies of British Jews’ first Teaching Judaism conference, run in conjunction with the Catholic Education Service. RE teacher Adina Bernstein went...